{"id":697,"date":"2011-08-18T23:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T03:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/?p=697"},"modified":"2011-08-18T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T03:53:49","slug":"lucretius-and-modernity-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/lucretius-and-modernity-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucretius and Modernity Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time APS member, Emma Bianchi, who will be joining the Comparative Literature Department at NYU, called our attention to this conference on Lucretius and Modernity to be held there this October.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The long shadow cast by Lucretius\u2019s poem falls across the disciplines of philosophy, literary history and criticism, religious studies, classics, political philosophy\u2026 Over the past two decades, interest in\u00a0De rerum natura\u00a0in each of these fields has grown dramatically, in some cases as hidden Epicurean influences on well-known writers have come to light, in others when the decline of a school or of a particular orthodoxy has left room for a return to Lucretius, and to the Epicurean tradition more broadly\u2014as with the eclipse of normative materialisms in philosophy and politics. Contemporary physics has found in the ancient atomist tradition a strange and evocative mirror; the place of Lucretius\u2019s poetics in the development of modern poetic genres, techniques, and themes has come into sharp focus; political philosophers have identified what Althusser called a \u201csubterranean current\u201d in the materialist tradition, flowing from Epicurus through Spinoza and Marx and to Deleuze, propelled by Lucretius\u2019s great poem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucretius and Modernity\u201d is the first conference to bring together classicists, philosophers and literary critics from Europe and the United States interested centrally in the work of Lucretius and in the long history of his reception. Clustered about four topics\u20141. What is modern about Lucretius? 2. What is Lucretian about modernity? 3. How to do things with Lucretius: Physics, Politics, Poetics; and 4. Following Lucretius\u2014the papers presented at \u201cLucretius and Modernity\u201d will provide the occasion for a reflection across disciplinary borders on the poem\u2019s continuing, growing importance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/complit.as.nyu.edu\/object\/complit.events.lucretius-and-modernity\">Lucretius and Modernity conference site on the Comp Lit website at NYU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/08\/08\/110808fa_fact_greenblatt\">Stephen Greenblatt&#8217;s recent essay on Lucretius&#8217;s &#8220;On The Nature Of Things&#8221; in the <em>New Yorker<\/em><\/a>, it seems that Lucretius is in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time APS member, Emma Bianchi, who will be joining the Comparative Literature Department at NYU, called our attention to this conference on Lucretius and Modernity to be held there this October. Here is the description: The long shadow cast by Lucretius\u2019s poem falls across the disciplines of philosophy, literary history and criticism, religious studies, classics, political philosophy\u2026 Over the past two decades, interest in\u00a0De rerum natura\u00a0in each of these fields has grown dramatically, in . . . <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/lucretius-and-modernity-conference\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[51,56],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-related-interest","tag-lucretius","tag-nyu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p276B2-bf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2291,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/deleuze-a-stoic-the-deleuze-lucretius-encounter\/","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":0},"title":"Deleuze, A Stoic &amp; The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter","author":"Christopher Long","date":"July 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Deleuze, A Stoic shows Deleuze\u2019s engagement with Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas, reveals a lasting influence on Gilles Deleuze by mapping his provocative reading of ancient Stoicism, unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary philosophy and classics by engaging a vital yet recently rising area of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Johnson-Deleuze-books-discount-flyer-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Johnson-Deleuze-books-discount-flyer-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Johnson-Deleuze-books-discount-flyer-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Johnson-Deleuze-books-discount-flyer-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Johnson-Deleuze-books-discount-flyer-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1476,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/grasp-and-dissent-cicero-and-epicurean-philosophy\/","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":1},"title":"Grasp and dissent: Cicero and Epicurean Philosophy","author":"Christopher Long","date":"March 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The present study centers on the distinctive characteristics of Cicero's philosophical training; for the first time in a volume, the Roman philosopher's relationship with Epicurean philosophy is accurately recreated. 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