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251Types of Freedom and Submission in Tacitus' AgricolaIn Aldo Setaioli (ed.), Apis Matina: Studi in onore di Carlo Santini, Eut Edizioni Università Di Trieste. pp. 715-726. 2016.Discusses conceptions of freedom displayed in Tacitus' Agricola. Tacitus seems to have had a clear-cut conceptual grid in which the German defectors, the Usipi, mirror the futile demonstrations of freedom by senators seeking a "ambitious death." The British provincials, including Calgacus and his followers, correspond to the ordinary Roman people and their leadership. It is in the army that a form of non-debasing hierarchy for the common benefit can be conceived, as long as the army and their le…Read more
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Antinomien des alternden SelbstIn Angelika C. Messner, Andreas Bihrer & Harm-Peer Zimmermann (eds.), Alter und Selbstbeschränkung: Beiträge aus der Historischen Anthropologie, Böhlau. pp. 187-200. 2017.Perspectives on old age are characterized by an antinomy of veneration and contempt. This paper explores how this antinomy is spelled in philosophical discourses and how it intersects with the antithesis of fool and sage. According to a Platonist or Antiochean account of ontogenesis, an individual’s development is conceived as an approximate instantiation of an ideal form of “man,” which tends to divide old people into successes and failures. In contrast to this, the Stoic theory of oikeiōsis en…Read more
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1Amicitia and Eros: Seneca’s Adaptation of a Stoic Concept of Friendship for Roman Men in Progress.In Gernot Michael Müller & Fosca Mariani Zini (eds.), Philosophie in Rom – Römische Philosophie?: Kultur-, literar-, und philosophiegeschichtliche Perspektiven, Cambridge University Press. pp. 387-425. 2016.Analyzes Seneca's conception of friendship as an innovative adaptation of Stoic eros to accommodate Roman social norms of equality and reciprocity and to define a form of non-defective friendship for fools who are making progess. Also provides a new answer to the conundrum of "will" in Seneca by connecting it to the impulse types epibole ("effort," also the impulse type of eros) and prothesis attested in Greek Stoic sources, and shows the connection between progessor friendship as an effort to …Read more
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334Care of the Self and Social Bonding in Seneca: Recruiting Readers for a Global Network of Progressor FriendsVita Latina 197 117-130. 2018.This paper interprets the demonstrative retreat from public life and the promotion of self-improvement in Seneca’s later works as a political undertaking. Developing arguments by THOMAS HABINEK, MATTHEW ROLLER and HARRY HINE, it suggests that Seneca promoted the political vision of a cosmic community of progressors toward virtue constituted by a special form of progressor friendship, a theoretical innovation made in the Epistulae morales. This network of like-minded individuals spanning time and…Read more
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Lukian. Symposion, griechisch und deutschReclam. 2005.Bilingual edition with ancient Greek text and German translation, rather lavish notes explaining all the philosophy jokes and introduction that also outlines the nature of Lukian's engagement with his famous subtext, Plato's Symposium.
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770Seneca und die Stoa: Der Platz des Menschen in der WeltDe Gruyter. 2006.Demonstrates the sophistication of Seneca’s Stoicism by setting his contributions within the context of his school. Seneca’s contributions to physics, metaphysics, logic, determinism, theodicy and eschatology are set within a systematic reconstructions of Stoic positions. Ample documentation of sources and scholarship as well as the thematic, handbook-like structure allow for this book to be used as a look-up tool and introduction to the Stoic cosmos and the place of humans within it. There are…Read more
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1Senea. De ira / Über die Wut, lateinisch und deutschReclam. 2007.Bilingual edition with German translation, introduction, and notes.
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384Seneca Philosophus (edited book)De Gruyter. 2014.Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca's work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome. It features a vitalizing diversity of contributors from different generations, disciplines, and research cultures. Several prominent Seneca scholars publishing in other languages are for the first time made accessible to anglophone readers. (See also the attached file with ToC and In…Read more
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471How did the Stoics conceive of a polis and statehood? What happens when these ideas meet different biographies and changing historical environments? To answer these questions, 'The Stoics and the State' combines close philological reading of original source texts and fine-grained conceptual analysis with wide-ranging contextualisation, which is both thematic and diachronic. A systematic account elucidates extant definitions, aspects of statehood (territory, institutions, population and state obj…Read more
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10„Der eine der beiden Vögel …“ – Ein Konjekturvorschlag zu Lukian, Symposion 43Hermes 133 (3): 383-387. 2005.Explores the narrative style characterizing Lucian's busibody persona Lycinus.
Jula Wildberger
The American University of Paris
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The American University of ParisProfessor
Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Phenomenology |
Philosophy of Consciousness |
Environmental Ethics |
Value Theory |