With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms…
With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms…
For centuries, the idea of a Renaissance at the end of the Middle Ages has been an active agent in shaping cnceptions of the development of Western Eurpoean civilization. Though the idea has enjoyed so long a life, conceptions of the nature of the Renaissance, of its xources, it…
