Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Translation and Text -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Death in the Time of Covid -- Introduction: The Birth of Death -- Book V -- 1. Making History -- 2. The Birth of the World -- 3. The Death of the World -- 4. It's a Turbulent Whirled -- 5. Evolutionary Materialism -- 6. A Brief History of Language -- 7. Eros and Civilisation -- Book VI -- 8. A Hymn to Ruin -- 9. As Above, So Below -- 10. Of Poisons and Plagues -- Conclusion: Unmaking History -- Afterword -- Index
Summary
A guidebook to living in a world that's destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
