The language of atoms: performativity and politics in Lucretius' "De rerum natura"
Shearin argues that ancient Epicurean writing on language offers a theory of performative language. Such a theory describes how languages acts, providing psychic therapy or creating new verbal meanings, rather than passively describing the nature of the universe. This observation allows us new insig...
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| Summary: | Shearin argues that ancient Epicurean writing on language offers a theory of performative language. Such a theory describes how languages acts, providing psychic therapy or creating new verbal meanings, rather than passively describing the nature of the universe. This observation allows us new insight into how Lucretius, our primary surviving Epicurean author, uses language in his great poem, 'De rerum natura' ('On the Nature of Things') |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
FLckn o tvledgmen ts
abbreviations
vii
xi
XV
i. Speech. Acts in Epicureanism i
z. Lucre tian Promises: Fides, Foedusy and the Politics of Nature 4-6
3. Antonomasia, Anonymity, and Atoms: Naming Effects
in F e return natura 9 8
4_. Catachrestic Origins: Speech Acts and the Politics of the
Performative 14-1
Works Cited 191
Index 207
w
hile scholarship on I.ucretius has
looked to connect H e rericm tiattiro to
its larger cultural and historical context,
it has never turned to speech act theory
in this quest. This omission is striking at
least in so far as speech act theory was
developed precisely as a way of locating
language (including texts) vith i n a theory
of action. At its root speech act theory is
about how language is part of history and
acts within it, and it thus holds promise
for addressing this long-standing scholarly
concern. Further, as this book asserts,
speech act theory is not some modern
development that one may apply to De
rzrrztrrz natzirtz but rather a theory native, at
least in some respects, to Epicurus’ school.
The argument contends that a central
problem in Epicurean semantics may be
resolved if we allow th at Epicurus (or
his school) developed an understanding
of performative language. It reads the
fragmentary remains of Epicurus’ writing
on language against central texts of
speech act theory such as j L. Austin’s
Jrdozju to Do Thirigs zjvith Words and Emile
Benveniste’s definition of the
as a form of speaking in which the act of
speech creates its own referent. The book:
moves on to consider the larger place of
the poem’s insight on the acts of promising
and naming. Bridging critical theory
and ancient philosophy JDtngttctge crf~
^4toms will engage scholars in a host of
humanities disciplines, including Classics,
Philosophy, and Comparative Literature.
within H e rerzerrt notzim^ and
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