Lucretius on Death and Anxiety: Poetry and Philosophy in de Rerum Natura by Segal, Charles - 1990

Princeton University Press, 1990. 291 pp., Hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight, lacks dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good+. Book fine, free of all markings. Jacket with very small closed tear on cover, so VG+ or near fine in mylar protective wrap. Nice book.

Princeton University Press, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. .

Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Publication of 279 pages. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket and boards are in near fine condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Princeton University Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0691068267 . Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. DJ has very faint shelfwear. ; In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. ; Princeton Legacy Library; 291 pages .

Princeton University Press, Princeton, n.d.(>1990). XII,279p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. ?The Epicurean arguments against the fear of death deployed by Lucretius are often granted a pellucid force in their own rationalistic terms, but felt to be an inadequate ?consolation mortis? in the face of the emotional reality of the fear of extinction. Segal shows that anxieties about the dissolution of the body and the dissipation of the self into the infinite nothingness of death are in fact obsessively confronted in the ?De rerun natura?, but mostly at levels other than that of the discursive argumentation itself. Pervasive is the old dichotomie between philosophy and poetry, but in the now orthodox version whereby the poet?s powers of empathy and imagistic association are working with rather than against the philosophical message. (?) The chief concept, used chiefly as a heuristic model, is the Freudian notion of displacement (?). The results are very fruitful. (?). The book is most… Read More