{"product_id":"seneca-and-the-self-9780521888387","title":"Seneca and the Self","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as a philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of ethical selfhood. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributors explore the main cruces of Senecan scholarships, such as whether Seneca's treatment of the self is original in its historical context; whether Seneca's Stoicism can be reconciled with the pull of rhetorical and literary self-expression; and how Seneca claims to teach psychic self-integration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost importantly, the contributor's debate to what degree, if at all, the absence of a technically articulated concept of selfhood should cause us to hesitate in seeking a distinctively Senecan self - one that stands out not only for the 'intensity of its relations to self', as Foucault famously put it, but also for the way in which those relations to self are couched.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shadi Bartsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521888387\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBartsch, Shadi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Shadi Bartsch is the W. Duncan MacMillan Professor of Classics at Brown University. Her most recent book is The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire (2006). \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWray, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - David Wray is an Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. His publications include Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood (Cambridge, 2001).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40538807828595,"sku":"9.78052E+12","price":179.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_effc8349-8d84-49c7-9628-51eb507ff325.jpg?v=1666704934","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/seneca-and-the-self-9780521888387","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}