The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice. By Pierre Hadot. Translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, with a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini, and an introduction by Matthew Sharpe
The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice is a welcome addition to the work of the influential French classicist and philosopher available in English. Hadot held the Chair of History in Hellenistic and Roman Thought at the Collège de France from 1982 to 1991. Over the course of h...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 2, Pages: 763-766 |
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| Summary: | The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice is a welcome addition to the work of the influential French classicist and philosopher available in English. Hadot held the Chair of History in Hellenistic and Roman Thought at the Collège de France from 1982 to 1991. Over the course of his career, Hadot argued for a vision of ancient philosophy fundamentally different from the purely discursive practices familiar to the modern university, one that understood philosophy as an entire “way of life” constituted by the practice of “spiritual exercises.” These fourteen pieces, lucidly translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, provide a representative sample of Hadot’s work across his career and the range of themes and texts, ancient and modern, that concerned him. Sharpe’s thorough introduction situates Hadot’s life and work in a way that helpfully informs the philosophical content of the collection, while the forword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini highlights the implications of Hadot’s work not only for ancient philosophy, but, as they put it, for “philosophy as such” (vii). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfab041 |