By Michael Chase,Stephen R. L. Clark,Michael McGhee

ISBN-10: 1405161612

ISBN-13: 9781405161619

This designated number of essays at the past due Pierre Hadot’s progressive method of learning and working towards philosophy strains the hyperlinks among his paintings and that of thinkers from Wittgenstein to the French postmodernists. It indicates how his secular religious workouts extend our horizons, permitting us to be in a fuller, extra genuine way.

  • Comprehensive remedy of a ignored subject: philosophy’s functional relevance in our lives
  • Interdisciplinary research displays the huge effect of Hadot’s thought
  • Explores the hyperlinks among Hadot’s principles and people of a wealth of historical and smooth thinkers, together with the French postmodernists
  • Offers a realistic ‘third approach’ in philosophy past the dichotomy of Continental and analytical traditions

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