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Seneca and the Self

Editat de Shadi Bartsch, David Wray
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 apr 2024
Many modern critics have treated Seneca as an innovator in historical understandings of 'selfhood' and self-awareness. This volume of essays by internationally well-known scholars promises to reshape our understanding of Seneca, and to establish once and for all his place as a student of the human psyche.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009516136
ISBN-10: 1009516132
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press

Cuprins

Part I. Seneca and the Self: New Directions: 1. Introduction Shadi Bartsch and David Wray; 2. Seneca on the self: why now? A. A. Long; Part II. Philosophical Perspectives: 3. Seneca and self assertion Brad Inwood; 4. Seneca and selfhood: integration and disintegration Christopher Gill; 5. Stoic laughter: a reading of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis Martha Nussbaum; Part III. Seneca and Roman Culture: 6. Seneca on fortune and the Kingdom of God Elizabeth Asmis; 7. Free yourself! Slavery, freedom and the self in Seneca's letters Catharine Edwards; 8. Seneca on self-examination: rereading On Anger 3.36 James Ker; 9. Senecan metaphor and stoic self-instruction Shadi Bartsch; Part IV. Reading the Tragedies: 10. Seneca and the denial of the self Alessandro Schiesaro; 11. Seneca and tragedy's reason David Wray; 12. Dissolution of the self in the Senecan corpus Austin Busch.

Recenzii

"Taken together, this collection lends its considerable weight to ways of reading Seneca that have been considered risky or even insupportable for too long, and that is all to the good. " --BCMR