Wort und Wandlung : : Senecas Lebenskunst / / von Michael von Albrecht.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 252
• VerfasserIn: Albrecht, Michael von,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2004.; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: German
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 252.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; EINFÜHRUNG /; VOM WERT DER ZEIT /; VOM REISEN UND LESEN /; VON GELD UND REICHTUM /; VON DER NACHFOLGE DES SOKRATES /; VOM LEHREN UND LERNEN /; DAS VERWANDELNDE WORT I: DRAMATIKER UND PHILOSOPH /; DAS VERWANDELNDE WORT II: SENECA IN DER CHRISTLICHEN TRADITION /; GEISTIGE BEFREIUNG: MONTAIGNE UND SENECA /; SENECA IN DER DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR /; ZITIERTE LITERATUR /; REGISTER /; SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9047413997
• ISSN: 0169-8958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: von Michael von Albrecht.

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.