Personification and the feminine in Roman philosophy /
[Book]
Alex Dressler.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
xiii, 312 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-293) and indexes.
Love, literature, and philosophy -- The subjects of personification and personhood -- Mothers, sons, and metaphysics: others' agency and self-identity in the Roman stoic notion of a person -- Girl behind the woman: Cicero and Tullia, Lucretius and the life of the body-mind -- Embodied persons and bodies personified: the phenomenology of perspectives in Seneca, Ep. 121 -- Nature's property in on duties 1: the feminine communism of Cicero's radical aesthetics -- Repairing the text.
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A literary approach to Roman philosophy demonstrating the relevance of gender, feminism and rhetoric to the history of the self.
Feminism.
Human beings.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Subjectivity.
Feminism.
Frau
Human beings.
Oikeiosis
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophie
PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Ancient & Classical.