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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.Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Anxiety -- History. --- Death -- History. --- Lucretius Carus, Titus. -- De rerum natura. --- Death --- Anxiety --- History. --- Lucretius Carus, Titus.

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The pursuit of death and the love of death has characterized Western culture from Homeric times through centuries of Christianity, taking particular deadly shapes in Western postmodernity. This necrophilia shows itself in destruction and violence, in a focus on other worlds and degradation of this one, and in hatred of the body, sense and sexuality. In her major new book project Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Grace M. Jantzen seeks to disrupt this wish for death, opening a new acceptance of beauty and desire that makes it possible to choose life.Foundations of Violence

Aesthetics. --- Death. --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Social Science. --- Gerontology --- Speculative Philosophy --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Philosophy --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy & Religion --- Death - History. --- Death - Social aspects.

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Death --- -Sensuality --- -Women --- -Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Sensuousness --- Pleasure --- Senses and sensation --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- History --- -History --- -Philosophy --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm --- Philosophical anthropology --- Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Sensuality --- Women --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Philosophy --- Nietzsche, Friederich --- Women - History - 19th century --- Sensuality - History - 19th century --- Death - History - 19th century --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, - 1844-1900

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Philosophical anthropology --- History of civilization --- Folklore --- Mortuary Practice --- Attitude to Death --- history --- Attitude to Death. --- Folklore. --- 393 --- Folklores --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- Death --- history. --- Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers --- ATTITUDE TO DEATH --- MORTUARY PRACTICE --- 393 Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers --- Mortuary practice --- History. --- 393 Death. Treatment of corpses. Funerals. Death rites --- Death. Treatment of corpses. Funerals. Death rites --- Fairy Tale --- Folktale --- Fairy Tales --- Folktales --- Mortuary Practice - history --- Attitude to Death - history

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Diseases and history --- Geneeskunde [Middeleeuwse ] --- Geneeskunde [Middeleeuwse ]--Werken voor 1800 --- Maladies et histoire --- Medicine [Medieval ] --- Medicine [Medieval ]--Early works to 1800 --- Medicine--Early works to 1800 --- Medieval medicine --- Middeleeuwse geneeskunde --- Médecine médiévale --- Médecine médiévale--Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Ziekten en geschiedenis --- Black Death --- Plague --- Peste noire --- Peste --- History. --- Histoire --- Medicine, Medieval --- History --- 940.19 --- Geschiedenis van Europa:--1270-1492 --- Diseases and history. --- Medicine, Medieval. --- 940.19 Geschiedenis van Europa:--1270-1492 --- Diseases --- History and diseases --- Epidemics --- Influence on history --- Black death --- Black Death - History --- Plague - History