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by Pierre Hadot (Author), Arnold Davidson (Editor) "Each one of you expects two things from me on the occasion of this inaugural lecture: first of all, that I express my thanks to..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: WileyBlackwell (17 Jun 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0631180338
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631180333
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.5 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 174,590 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Hadot′s essays exhibit impressive scholarship and a habit of profound reflection. This is not a book for the casual reader but it is an important publication and should be a required text for every student of philosophy, classics and the history of ideas, and for any serious teacher of these subjects." The Tablet

<!––end––>"Hadot′s work is very engaging, knowledgeable, well written and insightful. I highly recommend this book for both general and professional readers." Richard S. Findler, Phil dept, Slippery Rock University for the History of European Ideas

"Recommended for upper–division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." H. L. Shapiro, University of Missouri for Choice

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This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot′s book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.

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4.0 out of 5 stars What do we do?, 27 Sep 2007
By Mr. A. J. Thomas "Andy" (Norway) - See all my reviews
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This is the seminal work of the influential historian of philosophy Pierre Hadot, including his inaugural lecture as professor at the collège de France.
Hadot has a peculiar philosophical trajectory: he started working on Wittgenstein shortly after the war, and later in life was a crucial influence on the later work of Foucault.
These chapters portray for us the distinctive philosophical practises of various key thinkers in the European tradition, from Lucretius to Goethe, Socrates to Foucault. Hadot wants to get us away from the fashionable blank refusal to compare thinkers in radically different epochs by asking the question: what do they do? And his answers yield remarkable results.
Frustratingly suggestive, brilliantly erudite, and daringly broad, these pieces will not fail to entertain.
Probably the most significant problem, though, is that flagged by Foucault: it may be true that Goethe and his colleagues are the inheritors of the asceticism of late antiquity. But it is also true that ascetic techniques are to be found in the state disciplinary apparatus of their time.
Philosophy as a way of life is not an unambiguous project.
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