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Philosophy as a way of life : spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault
- Title
- Philosophy as a way of life : spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault / Pierre Hadot ; edited by Arnold Davidson ; translated by Michael Chase.
- Author
- Hadot, Pierre
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Blackwell, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Davidson, Arnold I. (Arnold Ira), 1955-
- Description
- viii, 309 pages; 24 cm
- Uniform Title
- Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique. English
- Alternative Title
- Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Pierre Hadot and the Spiritual Phenomenon of Ancient Philosophy / Arnold I. Davidson -- Pt. I. Method. 1. Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy. 2. Philosophy, Exegesis, and Creative Mistakes -- Pt. II. Spiritual Exercises. 3. Spiritual Exercises. 4. Ancient Spiritual Exercises and "Christian Philosophy" -- Pt. III. Figures. 5. The Figure of Socrates. 6. Marcus Aurelius. 7. Reflections on the Idea of the "Cultivation of the Self" -- Pt. IV. Themes. 8. "Only the Present is our Happiness": The Value of the Present Instant in Goethe and in Ancient Philosophy. 9. The View from Above. 10. The Sage and the World. 11. Philosophy as a Way of Life. Postscript: An Interview with Pierre Hadot.
- ISBN
- 063118032X (alk. paper)
- 0631180338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94028788
- OCLC
- 238924972
- ocn238924972
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries