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Gebundenes Buch

Philosophy as a Way of Life

Ancients and Moderns - Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot

Herausgeber: Chase, Michael; Mcghee, Michael; Clark, Stephen R L

Beschreibung

This unique collection of essays on the late Pierre Hadot's revolutionary approach to studying and practising philosophy traces the links between his work and that of thinkers from Wittgenstein to the French postmodernists. It shows how his secular spiritual exercises expand our horizons, enabling us to be in a fuller, more authentic way. * Comprehensive treatment of a neglected theme: philosophy's practical relevance in our lives * Interdisciplinary analysis reflects the wide influence of Hadot's thought * Explores the links between Hadot's ideas and those of a wealth of ancient and modern thinkers, including the French postmodernists * Offers a practical 'third way' in philosophy beyond the dichotomy of Continental and analytical traditions

Autor

Michael Chase is a Researcher at the Jean Pépin Centre of the National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris. A former student of Pierre Hadot himself, he has completed numerous translations of Hadot's works, and has also published on Late Greek and Latin Neoplatonism, Patristics, and Islamic and Medieval thought. Stephen R. L. Clark is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. His books include Aristotle's Man (1975), From Athens to Jerusalem (1984), Civil Peace and Sacred Order (1989), Biology and Christian Ethics (2000), Understanding Faith (2009), and Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy (2013). Michael McGhee is Honorary Senior Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool. He is the author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice (2000), as well as of a number of articles on moral philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781405161619
• ISBN-10: 1405161612
• Artikelnr.: 38475139

Rezensionen

"This is a most valuable collection of essays, stimulated as it is by the thought of Pierre Hadot, which will help to bring the concept of philosophy as a way of life to an English-speaking audience. Chase, Clark, and McGhee put us all in their debt for assembling this fine and varied collection."

-- John Dillon, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus), Trinity College Dublin

"By comparing Hindus, Buddhists, Stoics, Pythagoreans and Descartes, and interpreting Hadot, this important book reveals, as never before, the diversities in the practice of philosophy as a way of life."

--Richard Sorabji, Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford