Lucretius III

Thomas Nail is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the award-winning author of eight prestigious University Press books which cover a wide range of topics including migration, borders, technology, digital media, history, science, economics, contemporary politics and climate change. His current research focuses on the influence of mobility on society and the arts in the 21st century. His work has been translated into ten major languages and cited across more than 20 academic disciplines.His published books are Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).He also writes for Aeon: Ideas and Culture, The Huffington Post, Quartz, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, History News Network and Monthly Review.

Presenting numerous challenges to traditional perspectives on the Lucretian contribution to literature and philosophy, this volume will both encourage readers to reengage with the poem and stimulate vigorous debate as to its contemporary significance.

• Preface: Death in the Time of CovidIntroduction: The Birth of DeathBook V1. Making History2. The Birth of the World3. The Death of the World4. It’s a Turbulent Whirled5. Evolutionary Materialism6. A Brief History of Language7. Eros and CivilizationBook VI8. A Hymn to Ruin9. As Above, So Below10. Of Poisons and PlaguesConclusion: Unmaking HistoryAfterword