Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled

by Andrew Shifflett

Book Overview

This 1998 book offers an examination of key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical tradition of Stoicism. The Stoic ethos embraced several paradoxical moral and political concepts, notably 'constancy' accompanied by a fascination with violence, 'indifference' that mirrors extremities of anger and 'retirement' that involves quests for honour...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052110114X
• ISBN13: 9780521101141
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"