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Zusatztext An indispensable resource for anyone interested in ancient philosophy as a way of life. Hadot's writings, beautifully translated here by Sharpe and Testa, allow readers, once again, to engage with philosophies such Platonism and Stoicism as genuine lived practices rather than mere theories. Informationen zum Autor Federico Testa is Lecturer in Sociology and Humanites at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK. He is the translator and co-editor of The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot (with M. Sharpe, Bloomsbury, 2020) and Jean-Marie Guyau’s The Ethics of Epicurus (with K. Ansell-Pearson, Bloomsbury, 2021). Matthew Sharpe is is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. A collection of the most important of Pierre Hadot's writings comprising previously unreleased material, untranslated works and excerpts from his most famous texts. Zusammenfassung This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materials from one of the world's most prominent classical philosophers and historians of thought. As a passionate proponent of philosophy as a 'way of life' (most powerfully communicated in the life of Socrates), Pierre Hadot rejuvenated interest in the ancient philosophers and developed a philosophy based on their work which is peculiarly contemporary. His radical recasting of philosophy in the West was both provocative and substantial. Indeed, Michel Foucault cites Pierre Hadot as a major influence on his work. This beautifully written, lucid collection of writings will not only be of interest to historians, classicists and philosophers but also those interested in nourishing, as Pierre Hadot himself might have put it, a 'spiritual life'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Key Parameters 1. ‘My Books and My Research’2. ‘Ancient Philosophers’ 3. ‘Ancient Philosophy, an Ethics or a Practice?’4. ‘The Oral Teaching of Plato’ Part 2: Aspects 5. ‘Conversion’ 6. ‘The Division of the Parts of Philosophy in Antiquity’ 7. ‘Philosophy, Dialectic, and Rhetoric in Ancient Philosophy’ Part 3: The Ancients and Nature 8. ‘The Ancients and Nature’9. ‘The Genius of Place in Ancient Greece’ Part 4: Figures 10. ‘The Figure of the Sage in the Greek and Roman Antiquity’11. ‘Physics as a Spiritual Exercise, or Pessimism and Optimism in Marcus Aurelius’12. ‘On an Interrupted Dialogue with Michel Foucault: Convergences and Divergences’ Part 5: Ends 13. ‘The End of Paganism’14. ‘Models of Happiness Proposed by the Ancient Philosophers’...
