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.

Nail’s approach to Lucretius’ philosophy is quite successful in defining ethics of motion and correlating ethics with life, death, knowledge, aesthetics, and ecology. The methodology, the honorifics, and the structure of Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion help readers follow the narration and rediscover Lucretius as an ancient philosopher in a combination of the contemporary perspective. I offer people to read Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion without a doubt if they have concerns about humanity’s applications of nature and life itself from an ethical questioning. After reading this book, readers will have new ways of criticizing motion through a philosophical posthumanist philosophy.

• IntroductionAn Ethics of MotionLucretian Ethics – Against Stasis, Against ataraxia – Against Transcendent ValuesMethod – Historical Ontology – Close Reading – Translation – ArgumentationConclusion NotesBook III 1. A Matter of DesireAgainst Religion False FootstepsPedetic Ethics – Materialist Ethics – The Swallow – The Goat – The BeeThe Birth of SpringThe Ecstasy of the SensuousConclusion Notes2. KinophobiaDeath MattersLiquid Desire Practical Ethics The Mask of Materialism Statism and the Wound of Life Primitive AccumulationOf Stasis, Statues, and StatesHatred of the BodyPietas: Collective Ethics Transcendental MaterialismConclusion Notes3. Critique of Kinetic ReasonThe Material Conditions of ReasonCritique of Harmonic Reason – The Discordant Harmony of the SoulCritique of Pure Emotion – Affect TheoryWeaving the Soul – Critique of Atomic ReasonConclusionNotes4. Dark MaterialismFolded Matters – The Material Soul – The Folded Soul – The Elemental SoulThe Ethical Indeterminacy of Matter – Touching on NatureOntology and EthicsThe Thermodynamics of Emotion Thermodynamic EthicsThe Dying SoulDecaying LifeThe Movement of Death – The Woven VesselThe Scatology of SpiritMigrant Nature Conclusion Notes5. The Ethics of MotionDeath has no Value The Kinetic Theory of MemoryEthical Abstraction Ethics for a Leaky Basket Property is Theft! What is the Ethics of Motion? – Pedetic Ethics: Tantalus and Fors Fortuna – Entropic Ethics: Tityos and Leto – Collective Ethics: Sisyphus and FascesConclusion NotesBook IV6. Ethics of the SimulacrumThe Language of FlowersProcess Ethics of the Simulacrum Theory of the Simulacrum – DiffractionDrawing Figures – Swerving FiguresMaterial Ecology and Environmental Affect – Weaving String FiguresBrevi spatio, temporis in puncto Conclusion Notes7. All Perceptions are TrueThe Flow of ThingsInterweaving Sensation Mathesis naturalis The Fault of the Mind Against Scepticism: Against IdealismThe Diffractive Harmony of the SensesThe Language of the WorldThe Ecokinetic ImaginationConclusion Notes8. The Material UnconsciousAgainst UtilitarianismNature’s MindKnowledge and Dreams Libido The Wound of LoveThe Knots of LoveFeminine DesireMaternal Seeds Semele and DionysusConclusion NotesConclusionThe New Lucretius The Kinetic LucretiusMotivations and Aspirations NotesIndex