{"product_id":"nietzsche-and-epicurus-vinod-acharya-9781350086302","title":"Nietzsche and Epicurus","description":"This volume explores Nietzsche's decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and investigate how essential Epicurus was to Nietzsche's philosophical project through two interrelated overarching themes: nature and ethics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncovering the nature of Nietzsche's reception of, relation to, and movement beyond Epicurus, contributors provide insights into the relationship between suffering, health and philosophy in both thinkers; Nietzsche's stylistic analysis of Epicurus; the ethics of self-cultivation in Nietzsche's Epicureanism; practices of eating and thinking in Nietzsche and Epicurus; the temporality of Epicurean pleasure; the practice of the gay science, and Epicureanism and politics. The essays also provide creative comparisons with the Stoics, Hobbes, Mill, Guyau, Buddhism, and more. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNietzsche and Epicurus\u003c\/i\u003e offers original and illuminating perspectives on Nietzsche's relation to the Hellenistic thinker, in whom Nietzsche saw the embodiment of the practice of philosophy as an art of existing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vinod Acharya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350086304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350086302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Vinod Acharya","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482091577599,"sku":"9781350086302","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97c86d0e-927a-4541-8381-71e86a5fb550.jpg?v=1715988554","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nietzsche-and-epicurus-vinod-acharya-9781350086302","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}