https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1167 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1184 Lucretius’s poem let us perceive the world as a large fabric made of atomic threads and void. Things are woven, the same goes for simulacra, which are very thin fabrics. The events of the world are fabrics that meet or tear, this applies as much to the process that constructs reality as to the way in which we know things. The art of weaving and the mythical-poetic diction which is a consequence of the divine Verwobenheit are the two poles that allow us to understand the meaning of De rerum natura as a simulacral fabric which explains the way of functioning of matter and its processes of organization. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 16:16:50 +0100 mar., 02 avril 2024 10:07:39 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1184 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1178 Our study aims at illustrating with a few examples of a still not fully explored tradition how this  outstanding  ancient text, which had almost disappeared from the intellectual scene out of theological considerations, survived as a parched-up spring to eventually become an impetuous river and then, for the same dogmatic reasons, was forced again to follow  a temporarily subterraneous course to soon re-emerge in roughly the same geographical and cultural area where it had once barely survived. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 15:49:49 +0100 mar., 02 avril 2024 10:05:17 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1178 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1166 The opposite and complementary concepts of infinity and limit are essential in Epicurean philosophical speculation and in particular in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Through the analysis of some passages of the I, II, V and VI books, which deal with the question of the infinity of the universe and foreshadow the end of our world, the article will try to show the ethical implications of this teaching about the limit, also in relation to the discussion on death contained in the third book. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 13:46:55 +0100 jeu., 22 févr. 2024 13:59:03 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1166 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1271 Calvinian writing resembles that of Lucretius in that it is a cosmic writing, which intends not only to describe the universe but also to take up certain founding principles in its very form. A cosmogonic writing, “metaphor for the particulate substance of the world” (Six Memos for the Next Millennium), that conceives of the void as the place where everything can happen and where things like letters can unfold, combine, build and deconstruct. ven., 09 févr. 2024 11:15:03 +0100 mer., 14 févr. 2024 08:41:14 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1271 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1266 In this article, we’ll suggest some general ideas about nature and culture concepts. Those concepts will be to link with the music of Luciano Berio (1925-2003). This initiation hopes to bring out a Lucrecian approach in the Laborintus II (1965) of Berio. And also we’ll hope to bring out an implied social ecology dimension in this work. ven., 09 févr. 2024 10:35:14 +0100 mer., 14 févr. 2024 08:27:06 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1266 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1191 This paper argues that Lucretius ended his epic poem De Rerum Natura with the death of the world and the plague at Athens because he was not merely a philosopher of life and creativity as many scholars believe. For Lucretius, the entropic processes of death and dissolution are the origins of creativity and life. I also argue, against the Epicurean interpretation of Lucretius, that the conclusion of De Rerum Natura shows how different the two thinkers were. In particular, the article looks closely at lines 91-234 of book five and offers an alternative interpretation of Lucretius’ philosophy of history and death in which the ending of the book fits perfectly not despite its darkness but because of it. ven., 02 févr. 2024 11:21:07 +0100 mar., 13 févr. 2024 12:29:17 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1191 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1282 In Lucretius' poem, the knowledge of natural phenomena offers an understanding of things capable of freeing human beings from ignorance and fears. This prescriptive dimension of nature seems foreign to modernity. In the present work, we start from this presumed difference between the two forms of investigation to show that science, despite the communis opinio, actually possesses a normative charge. In the last section, we will consider the prescriptive dimension of contemporary science to tackle the issues emerging from the current ecological crisis. ven., 09 févr. 2024 15:13:24 +0100 ven., 09 févr. 2024 15:13:43 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1282 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1244 The essay attempts to investigate the echoes of the form that the sublime takes in Lucretius' poetry in Schiller's aesthetic theory, hypothesising a removed presence of the materialistic tradition in the modern elaboration of the sublime, whose reflections reach as far as Nietzsche. jeu., 08 févr. 2024 11:39:14 +0100 jeu., 08 févr. 2024 11:42:48 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1244