Nietzsche and Epicurus : nature, health and ethics / edited by Vinod Acharya and Ryan J. Johnson.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Nietzsche -- Epicurus -- Introduction -- Why Nietzsche and Epicurus? -- Epicurus and modern malaise -- Contributions -- Part One: Encounters: Body, mood, geography and the aesthetic -- Chapter 1: The philosophical literature after Plato: literary prose and philosophical style -- Introduction -- Epicurus polygraphus -- Struggle for prose, struggle for science? -- Conclusion: A difficult facility -- Chapter 2: The Gastrosophists! -- Amuse-bouche: Why food and eating? |
| Contents | Potage: Metaphor or truth (or neither) -- Hors d'oeuvre: Historical parallels -- Entrée: Food and morals -- Plat principal: Gastronomy, or the laws of the stomach -- Dessert: Savouring philosophy -- Digestif: Eating Nietzsche -- Chapter 3: 'Wisdom that walks in bodily form' -- The earth, the garden and the 'Nearest Things' -- 2 Paths to affirmation -- Chapter 4: Epicurean gardens and Nietzsche's white seas -- Over tranquil seas: Hermeneutics and palimpsests -- Reading ambiguity: Between Nietzsche and Epicurus -- Prescribing happiness: The list -- Garden gods and Epicurean skies |
| Contents | 'How little is needed for happiness' -- Nietzsche's white seas -- Chapter 5: What reason is there in the body? -- What reason is there in the body? -- What reason is there in Epicurus? -- What reason is there in Epicurus's body? -- Coda: What reason is there in my body? -- Part Two: Comparative studies -- Chapter 6: Eternal recurrence -- 1 Epicurean oblivion -- 2 Stoic consolation -- 3 Nietzschean cultivation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Nietzsche and Guyau on the temporality of Epicurean pleasure -- Guyau and Nietzsche -- 'The Afternoon of Antiquity': Nietzsche on Epicurus |
| Contents | Guyau on Epicurus: The time of a lifetime -- Modes of temporality: Guyau and Nietzsche on eternity and the instant -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Nietzsche, Hobbes and the tradition of political Epicureanism -- Introduction -- Nietzsche on Epicurus -- Epicurus on politics -- Epicurus on the contract -- Social contract theory -- Hobbes on the social contract -- Hobbes and religion -- Hobbes and the will -- Hobbes and Nietzsche -- Nietzsche on contracts -- Chapter 9: Passionate individuation -- I Introduction -- II. 1. Mill on 'originality' in human flourishing |
| Contents | II. 2. Nietzsche's individualized ideal of 'becoming what one is' -- III Two views on contemporary human flourishing -- IV Epicurean self-cultivation in Mill and Nietzsche -- V Conclusion -- Part Three: Appropriations and ambivalences -- Chapter 10: And Epicurus triumphs anew' -- I Introduction -- II Situating Epicurus -- confronting modernity -- III Moral decay and modernity -- IV Epicurean triumph -- Chapter 11: Enjoying riddles -- I How are we to gain an insight into what 'Epicurean'means in Nietzsche's writings? -- II Why are Nietzsche's 'Epicureans' called Epicurean? |
| Abstract | This volume explores Nietzsche's decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and investigate how essential Epicurus was to Nietzsche's philosophical project through two interrelated overarching themes: nature and ethics. Uncovering the nature of Nietzsche's reception of, relation to, and movement beyond Epicurus, contributors provide insights into the relationship between suffering, health and philosophy in both thinkers; Nietzsche's stylistic analysis of Epicurus; the ethics of self-cultivation in Nietzsche's Epicureanism; practices of eating and thinking in Nietzsche and Epicurus; the temporality of Epicurean pleasure; the practice of the gay science, and Epicureanism and politics. The essays also provide creative comparisons with the Stoics, Hobbes, Mill, Guyau, Buddhism, and more. Nietzsche and Epicurus offers original and illuminating perspectives on Nietzsche's relation to the Hellenistic thinker, in whom Nietzsche saw the embodiment of the practice of philosophy as an art of existing. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2020). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: NIETZSCHE AND EPICURUS. [S.l.] : BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2020 1350086304 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781350086326 electronic publication |
| ISBN | 1350086320 electronic publication |
| ISBN | 9781350086333 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1350086339 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1350086312 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781350086319 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | hardcover |
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