Seneca: The Literary Philosopher

ISBN-13: 9781107164048 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

New Hampshire) Graver Margaret (Dartmouth College

Opis

In-depth studies of Seneca's relation to Greek philosophy, his analysis of the emotions, and his project as a literary author.

Recenzje

'In looking over the essays as a whole, I am struck by the wide variety of interests and themes that Graver has tackled over the last three decades. Her observations and analysis are always clear and sharp, and I felt that I gained a further appreciation of the nuances of Seneca's moral psychology and Stoic sympathies in reading these pieces. It was also interesting to observe how, for example, a mention of gaudium in an early essay resonates in later pieces, or how in certain essays Graver brings her encyclopedic knowledge of broader Greek and Roman philosophy to bear.' Christopher Trinacty, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Part I. Recreating the Stoic Past: 1. The life of the mind; 2. Action and emotion; 3. The treatise On Benefits: real kindness and real agency; Part II. Rival Traditions in Philosophy: 4. Seneca and Epicurus; 5. Refuting the Peripatetics: Seneca and the school of Aristotle; Part III. Models of Emotional Experience: 6. Seneca's therapy for anger; 7. The weeping wise; 8. Anatomies of joy: Seneca and the Gaudium tradition; Part IV. The Self within the Text: 9. The challenge of the Phaedrus: therapeutic writing and the Letters on Ethics; 10. The mouse, the moneybox, and the six-footed scurrying solecism; 11. The manhandling of Maecenas; 12. Honeybee reading and self-scripting.