C14: Ancient Atomism and Modernity

Seminar Leader: James I. Porter, University of Michigan

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 150

Eric Baker, University of Minnesota: “Atomism, Laughter, and the Sublime in Kant”

Mark Buchan, Princeton University: “Marx, Atoms, and Ideology”

James I. Porter, University of Michigan: “Nietzsche, Atomism, and the Will to Power”

Eric Downing, University of North: “Lucretius at the Camera: Walter Carolina Benjamin, Ancient Atomism, and Early Photographic Theory”