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4 produkter
The Language of Atoms
Performativity and Politics in Lucretius' De rerum natura
Inbunden, 2015
1811 kr
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The Language of Atoms argues that ancient Epicurean writing on language offers a theory of performative language. Such a theory describes how languages acts, providing psychic therapy or creating new verbal meanings, rather than passively describing the nature of the universe. This observation …
Language of Atoms
Performativity and Politics in Lucretius' De rerum natura
E-bok, 2014
1328 kr
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While scholarship on Lucretius has looked to connect De rerum natura to its larger cultural and historical context, it has never turned to speech act theory in this quest. This omission is striking at least in so far as speech act theory was developed precisely as a way of locating language …
Dynamic Reading
Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism
Av Brooke Holmes, W. H. Shearin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2444 kr
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Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicurean philosophy through a series of eleven case studies, which range chronologically from the latter days of the Roman Republic to late twentieth-century France and America. Rather than attempting to separate an original Epicureanism from its …
Dynamic Reading
Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism
Av W. H. Shearin, Brooke Holmes
E-bok, 2011
1558 kr
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Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally.
