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Wort Und Wandlung: Senecas Lebenskunst (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (German Edition) - Hardcover
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The most important medium of Seneca's Lebenskunst is language. We first change the meaning of words through philosophical reflection; then we can change ourselves through language. Each chapter in this book takes linguistic or stylistic observations in texts as starting point (e.g. metaphors from the domains of health, finance, and sea-faring). Topics are man's self-definition in time and place and his relation to property, learning, and tradition. Single words and rhetorical patterns guide us in constructing an inner world and to find our own identity. Texts in Latin and in translation document Seneca's importance for modern, Christian Europe.
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Michael von Albrecht, Ph.D. (1959), Professor Emeritus at Heidelberg University has published works on classical literature and its reception, music, and literary translations. With Brill he published: History of Roman Literature (1997), Roman Epic (1999), and Cicero's Style (2003).
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'Hic liber, qui multis adnotationibus utilibus instructus est, non solum bene legitur, sed eius lectione etiam plurima addiscuntur. Insuper eodem unā ex parte praebentur incitamenta ad propias inqusitiones, alterā ex parte impulsūs dantur, quibus etiam didascalicae tractioni Senecae novi aspectūs addentur.'
Sigrides Albert, Vox Latina, 2005
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- PublisherBrill Academic Pub
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 9004139885
- ISBN 13 9789004139886
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageGerman
- Number of pages246
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Wort Und Wandlung: Senecas Lebenskunst (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (German Edition)
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Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2004. 236p. Cloth. Nice copy. Series: Mnemosyne Supplementa, 252. âThis literary study of Seneca consists of a series of loosely connected chapters falling into two sections. In the first section )9-130) A. Adduces various ways in which Senecaâs linguistic techniques and literary virtuosity convey his philosophical message, including a consideration of the relation of the tragedies to the prose works. In the second section, A. treats the reception of Senecaâs teaching and style by the Christians in general and then by Montaigne. Finally some highlights of the German literary tradition to Seneca ar discussed (â¦). What holds these studies together is first, A.âs keen appreciation of the inseparability of Senecaâs literary technique from the philosophical message, and, second, his almost evangelical zeal to explain and defend Seneca and his writings. This last finally issues in a ringing call to philosophers to use their new appreciation of the importance of practical ethics and of the interrelation of content and form in a philosophical text to reevaluate Senecaâs philosophical contribution (219). The authorâs method, particularly in the first section, is to concentrate on a few texts, normally form the âLetters to Luciliusâ, which are presented in Latin and in translation. In the analysis of Senecaâs metaphors, which dominates the first three chapters, the author fulfils the expectations of the bookâs title in one sense, I.e. by showing how Seneca highlights the difference between ordinary and philosophical language with the aim of replacing conventional with philosophical values towards, e.g. poverty and wealth. But this inversion of language is then shown to issue in a process that answers to the title in another sense: that of changing oneself through the use of language. So chapters four and five concentrate on Senecaâs pedagogic methods, showing how he perceives his kinship to Socrates in therms of non-systematic presentation and simultaneity of teaching and learning, and how, in the âLettersâ, Seneca stylises his own experience and turns himself into an example, as when he explains in Ep. 108 the effect of his own teachers on himself. Then, in chapter 7, A. Surveys various theories of the connection of Senecaâs tragedies and prose works and concludes that to construe the dramas as merely providing examples (â¦) plus precepts is inadequate. His own view is that Seneca shows his characters using all the techniques of self-exhortation that are used by the philosophical-committed, but to the opposite effect, i.e. placing the passions rather than reason in control (127). (â¦) The book leaved the reader with a realisation of how much can be extracted from Senecaâs writing by a sensitive and thoughtful reader and how much has been gleaned by such readers over the centuries.â (MIRIAM T. GRIFFIN in Gnomon, 2007, pp.75-76). Seller Inventory # 63619
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