Lucretius II An Ethics of Motion

Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Introduction
An Ethics of Motion
Lucretian Ethics
Against Stasis, Against ataraxia
Against Transcendent Values
Method
Historical Ontology
Close Reading
Translation
Argumentation
Conclusion
Notes

Book III

1. A Matter of Desire
Against Religion
False Footsteps
Pedetic Ethics
Materialist Ethics
The Swallow
The Goat
The Bee
The Birth of Spring
The Ecstasy of the Sensuous
Conclusion
Notes

2. Kinophobia
Death Matters
Liquid Desire
Practical Ethics
The Mask of Materialism
Statism and the Wound of Life
Primitive Accumulation
Of Stasis, Statues, and States
Hatred of the Body
Pietas: Collective Ethics
Transcendental Materialism
Conclusion
Notes

3. Critique of Kinetic Reason
The Material Conditions of Reason
Critique of Harmonic Reason
The Discordant Harmony of the Soul
Critique of Pure Emotion
Affect Theory
Weaving the Soul
Critique of Atomic Reason
Conclusion
Notes

4. Dark Materialism
Folded Matters
The Material Soul
The Folded Soul
The Elemental Soul
The Ethical Indeterminacy of Matter
Touching on Nature
Ontology and Ethics
The Thermodynamics of Emotion
Thermodynamic Ethics
The Dying Soul
Decaying Life
The Movement of Death
The Woven Vessel
The Scatology of Spirit
Migrant Nature
Conclusion
Notes

5. The Ethics of Motion
Death has no Value
The Kinetic Theory of Memory
Ethical Abstraction
Ethics for a Leaky Basket
Property is Theft!
What is the Ethics of Motion?
Pedetic Ethics: Tantalus and Fors Fortuna
Entropic Ethics: Tityos and Leto
Collective Ethics: Sisyphus and Fasces
Conclusion
Notes

Book IV

6. Ethics of the Simulacrum
The Language of Flowers
Process Ethics of the Simulacrum
Theory of the Simulacrum
Diffraction
Drawing Figures
Swerving Figures
Material Ecology and Environmental Affect
Weaving String Figures
Brevi spatio, temporis in puncto
Conclusion
Notes

7. All Perceptions are True
The Flow of Things
Interweaving Sensation
Mathesis naturalis
The Fault of the Mind
Against Scepticism: Against Idealism
The Diffractive Harmony of the Senses
The Language of the World
The Ecokinetic Imagination
Conclusion
Notes

8. The Material Unconscious
Against Utilitarianism
Nature's Mind
Knowledge and Dreams
Libido
The Wound of Love
The Knots of Love
Feminine Desire
Maternal Seeds
Semele and Dionysus
Conclusion
Notes

Conclusion
The New Lucretius
The Kinetic Lucretius
Motivations and Aspirations
Notes
Index