Wort Und Wandlung: Senecas Lebenskunst (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

The medium of Seneca's Lebenskunst is language. We first change the meaning of words through philosophical reflection, then ourselves. Rhetorical patterns guide us in constructing an inner world and in defining ourselves. Texts in Latin and in translation document Seneca's seminal role in the development of European thought.

The most important medium of Seneca's Lebenskunst is language. We first change the meaning of words through philosophical reflection; then we can change ourselves through language. Each chapter in this book takes linguistic or stylistic observations in texts as starting point (e.g. metaphors from the domains of health, finance, and sea-faring). Topics are man's self-definition in time and place and his relation to property, learning, and tradition. Single words and rhetorical patterns guide us in constructing an inner world and to find our own identity. Texts in Latin and in translation document Seneca's importance for modern, Christian Europe.

WORT UND WANDLUNG: SENECAS LEBENSKUNST 3 INHALT 5 EINFÜHRUNG 7 VOM WERT DER ZEIT 15 VOM REISEN UND LESEN 30 VON GELD UND REICHTUM 40 VON DER NACHFOLGE DES SOKRATES 59 VOM LEHREN UND LERNEN 74 DAS VERWANDELNDE WORT I: DRAMATIKER UND PHILOSOPH 105 DAS VERWANDELNDE WORT II: SENECA IN DER CHRISTLICHEN TRADITION 136 GEISTIGE BEFREIUNG: MONTAIGNE UND SENECA 179 ETHIKER, TRAGIKER, NATURPHILOSOPH: SENECA IN DER DEUTSCHEN 199 ZITIERTE LITERATUR 227 REGISTER 237 SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE -1