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Philosophy as a way of life : ancients and moderns : essays in honor of Pierre Hadot /

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, enabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hadot, Pierre, Chase, Michael, 1959- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Subjects:
Hadot, Pierre.
Hadot, Pierre. > Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique.
Philosophy.
Philosophy > History.
Spiritual exercises > History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Michael Chase
  • 2. Ancient Philosophers: A First Statistical Survey / Richard Goulet
  • 3. Philosophy as a Way of Life: As Textual and More Than Textual Practice / Richard Shusterman
  • 4. Charismatic Authority, Spiritual Guidance, and Way of Life in the Pythagorean Tradition / Constantinos Macris
  • 5. Alcibiades' Love / Jan Zwicky
  • 6. Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions / Matthew T. Kapstein
  • 7. Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from the Buddha to Tagore / Jonardon Ganeri
  • 8. Approaching Islamic Philosophical Texts: Reading Mulla Sadra Sirazi (d. 1635) with Pierre Hadot / Sajjad H. Rizvi
  • 9. Philosophy and Self-improvement: Continuity and Change in Philosophy's Self-conception from the Classical to the Early-modern Era / John Cottingham
  • 10. Descartes' Meditations: Practical Metaphysics: The Father of Rationalism in the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises / Theodor Kobusch
  • 11. Leading a Philosophical Life in Dark Times: The Case of Leonard Nelson and His Followers / Fernando Leal
  • 12. Philosophy as a Way of Life and Anti-philosophy / Gwenaelle Aubry
  • 13. Philosophy and Gestalt Psychotherapy / Paul O'Grady
  • 14. Wittgenstein's Temple: Or How Cool is Philosophy? / Michael McGhee
  • 15. Observations on Pierre Hadot's Conception of Philosophy as a Way of Life / Michael Chase.