Details
Author
Bartsch, Shadi And David Wray (Eds.)
Publishers
Cambridge University Press., 23.07.2009.
Size
IX., 304 Seiten / p. 15,2 x 1,9 x 22,9 cm, Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket.
Description
Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - CONTENTS -- Seneca and the Self: New Directions -- Introduction -- SHADI BARTSCH AND DAVID WRAY -- Seneca on the self: why now? -- A. LONG -- Philosophical Perspectives -- Seneca and self assertion -- BRAD INWOOD -- Seneca and selfhood: integration and disintegration CHRISTOPHER GILL -- Stoic laughter: a reading of Seneca�s Apocolocyntosis MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM -- Seneca and Roman Culture -- Seneca on fortune and the kingdom of god -- ELIZABETH ASMIS -- Free yourself! Slavery, freedom and the self in Seneca�s Letters -- CATHARINE EDWARDS -- Seneca on self-examination: rereading On Anger 3.36 JAMES KER -- Senecan metaphor and Stoic self-instruction SHADIBARTSCH -- Reading the Tragedies -- Seneca and the denial of the self -- ALESSANDRO SCHIESARO -- Seneca and tragedy�s reason -- DAVID WRAY -- Dissolution of the self in the Senecan corpus -- AUSTIN BUSCH. - This new collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of ethical selfhood. The contributors explore the main cruces of Senecan scholarship, such as whether Seneca�s treatment of the self is original in its historical context; whether Seneca�s Stoicism can be reconciled with the pull of rhetorical and literary self-expression; and how Seneca claims to teach psychic self-integration. Most importantly, the contributors debate to what degree, if at all, the absence of a technically articulated concept of selfhood should cause us to hesitate in seeking a distinctively Senecan self - one that stands out not only for the �intensity of its relations to self,� as Foucault famously put it, but also for the way in which those relations to self are couched. ISBN 9780521888387