| Seneca and the Self Contributor(s): Bartsch, Shadi (Editor), Wray, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521888387 ISBN-13: 9780521888387 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2009 Annotation: Twelve essays by internationally well-known scholars which reshape our understanding of Seneca as a student of the human psyche. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 188 |
| LCCN: 2009009342 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.41 lbs) 316 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of ethical selfhood. The contributors explore the main cruces of Senecan scholarship, such as whether Seneca's treatment of the self is original in its historical context; whether Seneca's Stoicism can be reconciled with the pull of rhetorical and literary self-expression; and how Seneca claims to teach psychic self-integration. Most importantly, the contributors debate to what degree, if at all, the absence of a technically articulated concept of selfhood should cause us to hesitate in seeking a distinctively Senecan self - one that stands out not only for the 'intensity of its relations to self', as Foucault famously put it, but also for the way in which those relations to self are couched. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wray, David: - David Wray is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. His publications include Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood (Cambridge, 2001).Bartsch, Shadi: - Shadi Bartsch is the W. Duncan MacMillan Professor of Classics at Brown University. Her most recent book is The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire (2006). |