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Lucretius III: A History of Motion

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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 or began to see the catastrophic consequences of man-made climate change. What does it mean to live in such a world; a world that is increasinly obviously our world? Nail shows us how De Rerum Natura provides a guidebook for us to answer this question.

Author(s): Thomas Nail
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 232
City: Edinburgh

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Note on the Translation and Text
Acknowledgements
Preface: Death in the Time of Covid
Introduction: The Birth of Death
Book V
1. Making History
2. The Birth of the World
3. The Death of the World
4. It’s a Turbulent Whirled
5. Evolutionary Materialism
6. A Brief History of Language
7. Eros and Civilisation
Book VI
8. A Hymn to Ruin
9. As Above, So Below
10. Of Poisons and Plagues
Conclusion: Unmaking History
Afterword
Index