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Venus-uoluptas, Vénus vagabonde et Vénus conjugale : plaisir sexuel et désillusion dans le De rerum natura

open access: yesAitia, 2020
The end of book 4 of De rerum natura is enigmatic for any reader well versed in Epicurean doctrine: beyond the Epicurean orthodoxy that warns us of the pleasures of love, book 4 actually insists on many joyful and pleasurable aspects of sexuality ...
Julie Giovacchini
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CHRONOPOLITICS OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY THROUGH THE NON SEQUITUR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 45-55, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that classical philology can play a vital role in debates about the importance of philology now and configures a genealogy that may contribute to the quest for alternative philologies. Building on Werner Hamacher's definition of philology as “love of the non sequitur,” I turn to founding texts of Western classical philology
ALEXANDRA LIANERI
wiley   +1 more source

A thematic analysis of Palahniuk’s fiction in light of Epicureanism

open access: yesK@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2017
Chuck Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer whose novels have been adapted into acclaimed Hollywood motion pictures. Palahniuk’s literary style is often branded as modernist with nihilistic undertones.
Hesamoddin Shahriari, Ghazal Toosi
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The Humanist at the Table. On the Pleasure of Feasting in Polish Renaissance

open access: yesTabula, 2020
Italian humanists’ discoveries of ancient texts and printed editions of such ancient works as Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Plato’s Symposium or Apicius’ De re coquinaria strongly influenced the renewal of the Epicurean category of pleasure (voluptas) and ...
Dawid Barbarzak
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Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2326-2348, November 2025.
Abstract This paper locates acute and ongoing crises of coloniality and ecology within struggles over circulation that are anchored in infrastructure. If infrastructure organises movement—including its constraint in carceral forms—then it is also a linchpin for materialising distinct regimes of motion (Nail 2020a; Marx in Motion: A New Materialist ...
Deborah Cowen
wiley   +1 more source

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

open access: yesProblemos
This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy.
Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel
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COMMUNICATIVE AND VALUABLE ADVICE IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS OF EPICURUS

open access: yesОсвітній дискурс
Urgency of the research. During the war, the understanding of happiness changed, and the value of life also gave a new form of explanation, so the topic has become even more relevant today.
Olga Rak
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Sustainable Consumption for a Better Life: Consumer Well‐Being—A Review and Research Agenda

open access: yesInternational Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 49, Issue 5, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Studies on consumer responsible behavior (CRB) and consumer well‐being (CWB) have grown exponentially over the past 20 years. Although these lines of research have been developed independently, an important number of studies have focused on the connections between them.
Nuria García‐Rodríguez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SUJETO Y MUNDO MATERIAL EN LA NARRATIVA CHILENA DEL NOVENTA Y EL DOS MIL: ESTOICOS, ESCÉPTICOS Y EPICúREOS

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Literatura, 2012
Resumen El artículo expone un criterio general para el análisis y la interpretación de las narraciones escritas y publicadas durante las últimas dos décadas en Chile.
Ignacio Alvarez
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