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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 163-190, March 2026.Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Epicurus and Lucretius on the Creation of the Cosmos [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2015 : Although in the extants of Epicurus there is not a direct mention to the atomic swerve, other sources, among them Lucretius, confirm that the Athenian philosopher foresaw in the presence of this unpredictable atomic movement the solution for the ...
Eliopoulos Panos
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The Living in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Animals’ ataraxia and Humans’ Distress
Relations, 2014 In trying to comprehend the human role among other living beings from an antispeciesist point of view it is possible to look back to those thinkers who, far before our times, had already considered other living beings from a non-anthropocentric ...
Alma Massaro
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Cosmologie et modèle biologique chez Lucrèce : dire l'unité du monde
Lexis, 2023 The present article tackles the issue of the unity and cohesion of the world as it is evoked by Lucretius in the De Rerum Natura. Through this work, we would like to show that the philosopher offers an original solution to this question by using a ...
Joncheray, Anne Claire
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Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation
Antipode, 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
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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The Chemical Record, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2025.The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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The Six Books of Lucretius’ De rerum natura: Antecedents and Influence
Dictynna, 2010 Lucretius’ De rerum natura is one of the relatively few corpora of Greek and Roman literature that is structured in six books. It is distinguished as well by features that encourage readers to understand it both as a sequence of two groups of three books
Joseph Farrell
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Nunc, tum, nuper : Lucrèce et l’histoire
Aitia, 2020 Does Lucretius develop a conception of history, either as a theory of progress or as a theory of decadence? In fact, the passages where he talks about the past periods of Nature and successive human inventions are rather a reflection on the present and ...
Pierre-François Moreau
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