French and Italian Stoicisms - From Sartre to Agamben

The importance of Stoicism for Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense and Michel Foucault's Hermeneutics of the Subject and The Care of the Self is well known. However, few students of either classics or philosophy are aware of the breadth of French and Italian receptions of Stoicism. This book firstly presents this broad field to readers, and secondly advances it by renewing dialogues with ancient Stoic texts. The authors in this volume, who combine expertise in continental and Hellenistic philosophy, challenge our understanding of both modern and ancient concepts, arguments, exercises, and therapies. It conceives of Stoicism as a vital strand of philosophy which contributes to the life of contemporary thought. Flowing through the sustained, varied engagement with Stoicism by continental thinkers, this volume covers Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, emile Brehier, Barbara Cassin, Giorgia Agamben, and Pierre Hadot. Stoic sources addressed range from doxography and well-known authors like Epictetus and Seneca to more obscure authorites like Musonius Rufus and Cornutus.

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• Authors: Kurt Lampe, LAMPE KURT, Janae Sholtz
• Assisted by: Kurt Lampe (Editor), Janae Sholtz (Editor), Sholtz Janae (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781350082038
• ISBN: 978-1-350-08203-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -