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The Therapy of Desire
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- The Therapy of Desire
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- Nussbaum, Martha C.
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- 9780691000527
- EAN
- 9780691000527
- Publication Name
- Therapy of Desire : Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Series
- Martin Classical Lectures
- Type
- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 28 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought of today.
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Princeton University Press
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0691000522
ISBN-13
9780691000527
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Publication Name
Therapy of Desire : Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Series
Martin Classical Lectures
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
28 Oz
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Series Volume Number
8
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Nussbaum writes as an advocate [of the Hellenistic philosophers], though not an uncritical one, for even while she admires the seriousness and subtlety with which these philosophers analyze the passions, she allows that there is an unresolvable conflict between the detachment and the intense engagement entailed by their philosophies. The sense that these philosophers still matter, that we can wrangle with them and learn from them, is invigorating. ---Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review, "By turns wise and witty, silly and Socratic, critical and compassionate, Nussbaum proves to be an extraordinarily addictive literary companion.... She has triumphantly proved ... that the life of the mind can be one of the highest and most rewarding pursuits known to man, including woman.... If Nikidion got one-tenth of the pummeling, excitement, and stimulation in the Garden of Epicurus that Nussbaum provides, intellectually and emotionally, in this densely argued volume, I should be very much surprised.... This is a book to live with."-- Peter Green, The New Republic, Nussbaum adventurously straddles boundaries conventionally drawn between philosophy and its own history, between philosophy and literature, and between scholarship and the social sciences.... Few modern books have done as much as this one promises to do in raising the profile of Hellenistic philosophy. It is constantly gripping and absorbing, written with rare eloquence and containing long stretches of almost lyrical intensity. A literary as well as a philosophical tour de force. ---David Sedley, The Times Literary Supplement, "By turns wise and witty, silly and Socratic, critical and compassionate, Nussbaum proves to be an extraordinarily addictive literary companion.... She has triumphantly proved ... that the life of the mind can be one of the highest and most rewarding pursuits known to man, including woman.... If Nikidion got one-tenth of the pummeling, excitement, and stimulation in the Garden of Epicurus that Nussbaum provides, intellectually and emotionally, in this densely argued volume, I should be very much surprised.... This is a book to live with." --Peter Green, The New Republic, "Nussbaum writes as an advocate [of the Hellenistic philosophers], though not an uncritical one, for even while she admires the seriousness and subtlety with which these philosophers analyze the passions, she allows that there is an unresolvable conflict between the detachment and the intense engagement entailed by their philosophies. The sense that these philosophers still matter, that we can wrangle with them and learn from them, is invigorating." --Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review, "Nussbaum adventurously straddles boundaries conventionally drawn between philosophy and its own history, between philosophy and literature, and between scholarship and the social sciences.... Few modern books have done as much as this one promises to do in raising the profile of Hellenistic philosophy. It is constantly gripping and absorbing, written with rare eloquence and containing long stretches of almost lyrical intensity. A literary as well as a philosophical tour de force. "-- David Sedley, The Times Literary Supplement, "Nussbaum writes as an advocate [of the Hellenistic philosophers], though not an uncritical one, for even while she admires the seriousness and subtlety with which these philosophers analyze the passions, she allows that there is an unresolvable conflict between the detachment and the intense engagement entailed by their philosophies. The sense that these philosophers still matter, that we can wrangle with them and learn from them, is invigorating."-- Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review, "Nussbaum adventurously straddles boundaries conventionally drawn between philosophy and its own history, between philosophy and literature, and between scholarship and the social sciences.... Few modern books have done as much as this one promises to do in raising the profile of Hellenistic philosophy. It is constantly gripping and absorbing, written with rare eloquence and containing long stretches of almost lyrical intensity. A literary as well as a philosophical tour de force. " --David Sedley, The Times Literary Supplement, By turns wise and witty, silly and Socratic, critical and compassionate, Nussbaum proves to be an extraordinarily addictive literary companion.... She has triumphantly proved ... that the life of the mind can be one of the highest and most rewarding pursuits known to man, including woman.... If Nikidion got one-tenth of the pummeling, excitement, and stimulation in the Garden of Epicurus that Nussbaum provides, intellectually and emotionally, in this densely argued volume, I should be very much surprised.... This is a book to live with. ---Peter Green, The New Republic, By turns wise and witty, silly and Socratic, critical and compassionate, Nussbaum proves to be an extraordinarily addictive literary companion.... She has triumphantly proved ... that the life of the mind can be one of the highest and most rewarding pursuits known to man, including woman.... If Nikidion got one-tenth of the pummeling, excitement, and stimulation in the Garden of Epicurus that Nussbaum provides, intellectually and emotionally, in this densely argued volume, I should be very much surprised.... This is a book to live with., Nussbaum writes as an advocate [of the Hellenistic philosophers], though not an uncritical one, for even while she admires the seriousness and subtlety with which these philosophers analyze the passions, she allows that there is an unresolvable conflict between the detachment and the intense engagement entailed by their philosophies. The sense that these philosophers still matter, that we can wrangle with them and learn from them, is invigorating., "Filled with many beautifully written and powerful passages, this book will provoke lively discussion among specialists and show nonspecialists how much there is to be gained from a serious study of this period." --Brad Inwood, University of Toronto
Table of Content
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 3 Ch. 1 Therapeutic Arguments 13 Ch. 2 Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice 48 Ch. 3 Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health 78 Ch. 4 Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire 102 Ch. 5 Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love 140 Ch. 6 Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature 192 Ch. 7 "By Words, Not Arms": Lucretius on Anger and Aggression 239 Ch. 8 Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief 280 Ch. 9 Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul 316 Ch. 10 The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions 359 Ch. 11 Seneca on Anger in Public Life 402 Ch. 12 Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea 439 Ch. 13 The Therapy of Desire 484 List of Philosophers and Schools 511 Bibliography 517 Index Locorum 531 General Index 550
Copyright Date
1994
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Dewey Decimal
170/.938
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
Philosophy
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