Lucretius III: A History of Motion

by Thomas Nail

Book Overview

For Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think. Instead of thinking of history in terms of time, he thought of it in terms of motion. This book unpacks the implications of this unique kinetic philosophy of history. In the final volume of his trilogy on Lucretius, Thomas Nail argues that in books five and six of De Rerum Natura, Lucretius described a world born to die - long before humans theorised about thermodynamics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474464246
• ISBN13: 9781474464246
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"