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Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature Hardcover - 2002
by Duncan F. Kennedy
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- Title Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature
- Author Duncan F. Kennedy
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Michigan Press
- Date 2002-09
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780472112883 / 0472112880
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.36 x 0.71 in (23.72 x 16.15 x 1.80 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Nature in literature, Reality in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002000639
- Dewey Decimal Code 187
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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 145 pages. How deeply into the structure of physical reality do the effects of our way of representing it reach? To what extent do constructivist accounts of scientific theorizing involve realist assumptions, and vice versa? This book provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates, taking as its theme the question of the relationship of representation and reality. It treats in an attractive and accessible way the historical, philosophical, and literary aspects of this question. In particular, it explores how the present relates to and configures claims to scientific knowledge from the past, taking as its main case study On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura), the poem on physics written by the Roman poet Lucretius in the 50s B.C.E. The book engages in a sustained argument about realist assumptions in scientific and other discourses through detailed analysis and…
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