Bibliography
Epicurus in the Enlightenment - edited by Neven Leddy and Avi Lifschitz
Just a brief note on this one, as it was advertised over the Classicists@Liverpool e-mail list recently and I figured I might do worse than pick it up and glance over it, just to keep my hand in. Epicureanism is my weak spot, and the reception of classical philosophy in periods after antiquity is something I kind of feel I should know more about. (Nobody else will probably agree with me here, in professional terms, but I'm keeping my hand in and it doesn't hurt.)
As I say, I'm not a particular expert in this field and so my overall impression of the scholarship in this volume isn't particularly well informed. A couple of interesting threads turned up - the use of Epicureanism as a term of abuse, the connection with atheism and the Epicurean atomism, the Enlightenment thinkers' fight to do atomism and yet not lose God... that kind of thing. So what I've got out of it is mainly a sense of some of the Names and Thinkers and serious debates of the period, and that's pretty much all I was after.
Just a brief note on this one, as it was advertised over the Classicists@Liverpool e-mail list recently and I figured I might do worse than pick it up and glance over it, just to keep my hand in. Epicureanism is my weak spot, and the reception of classical philosophy in periods after antiquity is something I kind of feel I should know more about. (Nobody else will probably agree with me here, in professional terms, but I'm keeping my hand in and it doesn't hurt.)
As I say, I'm not a particular expert in this field and so my overall impression of the scholarship in this volume isn't particularly well informed. A couple of interesting threads turned up - the use of Epicureanism as a term of abuse, the connection with atheism and the Epicurean atomism, the Enlightenment thinkers' fight to do atomism and yet not lose God... that kind of thing. So what I've got out of it is mainly a sense of some of the Names and Thinkers and serious debates of the period, and that's pretty much all I was after.