Nietzsche and Epicurus (Paperback)

prelims Introduction Vinod Acharya and Ryan Johnson 1. Jill Marsden (Bolton Institute), "'Wisdom that walks in bodily form': Nietzsche's travels with Epicurus". 2. Willow Verkerk (Kingston), "Nietzsche's Joyful Friendship: Epicurean Elements in the Middle Works". 3. Matthew Dennis (Warwick, Monash), "Epicurean Self-Cultivation in Nietzsche's Early Works". 4. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick), "Nietzsche and Kant on Epicurus and Self-Cultivation". 5. Carlotta Santini (Technical University Berlin), "Literary Prose and Philosophical Style: Nietzsche on the Case of Epicurus". 6. Wilson H. Shearin (University of Miami), "Nietzsche's Epicurean Epistemology". 7. Ryan Johnson (Elon University, North Carolina), "The Gastrosophists: Eating and Thinking with Nietzsche and Epicurus". 8. Babette Babich (Fordham University), "Nietzsche's Epicurus: Music and the Art of Living". 9. Patrick Wotling (Reims University, France), "Enjoying Riddles: Epicurus as a forerunner of the idea of gay science". 10. Federico Testa (Warwick, Monash), "Nietzsche and Guyau on the Temporality of Epicurean Pleasure". 11. Paul Bishop (Glasgow), 'Nietzsche's Response to Epicurus in the Light of Hobbes's theory of the contract". 12. Peter S. Groff (Bucknell University), "Great Politics and the Unnoticed Life: Nietzsche and Epicurus on the Boundaries of Cultivation". 13. Daniel W. Conway (Texas A+M), "'The Psychological Type of the Redeemer': Nietzsche's Revaluation of Epicurus". bibliography index