Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy

Critical Assessments
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69351-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 795 g

Reihe: Philosophy as a Way of Life

The affinities between Pierre Hadot’s and Michel Foucault’s interpretations of ancient philosophy, as well as their impact, are well-known. However, these interpretations have been criticized in several crucial points. This book provides the first extensive critical assessment of these interpretations. It brings together specialists in ancient philosophy, as well as Hadot and Foucault scholars, in order both to explore criticisms and clarify Hadot’s and Foucault’s accounts.

In doing so, it not only offers an overview of the main trends in Philosophy as a Way of Life, but also recasts the debate and opens new paths of inquiry in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Faustino, Marta

Telo, Hélder

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Task of Assessing Hadot’s and Foucault’s Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy

Marta Faustino and Hélder Telo

PART 1: General Accounts

1 To What Extent Can Greek Philosophy Be Characterized as an “Art of Living”?

Christoph Horn

2 Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life Examined: Clearing up the Confusion between “Way of Life” and “Art of Life”

Annie Larivée

3 The Problem of the Dandy in the Aesthetics of Existence: Foucault’s Dialogue with Hadot, Kant, and Baudelaire

Paul Allen Miller

PART 2: Spirituality

4 Philosophical Mythoi: the Birth of Spirituality from the Nature of Things

Gianfranco Ferraro

5 A Contamination of Philosophy by Religion? Reassessing Hadot’s Notion of Spiritual Exercises

Marta Faustino

6 Pierre Hadot and His Critics on Spiritual Exercises and Cosmic Consciousness: from Ancient Philosophy to Contemporary Neurology

Michael Chase

7 Ancient Stoicism: between Spiritual Exercises and Cognitive Therapy

Konrad Banicki

8 Towards a Comparative Archaeology of the Notion of “Spiritual”: Michel Foucault and “Ancient Philosophy” as “Spirituality”

Pierre Vesperini

PART 3: Logos and Truth

9 On the Role of Reason in Ancient Philosophical Practice: an Intellectualist Reframing of Hadot’s and Foucault’s Approach

Hélder Telo

10 Foucault on Parrhesia and Rhetoric: a Reassessment

Daniele Lorenzini

11 From Speech to Pure Visibility: a Problem in Foucault’s Conception of Socratic Parrhesia

Paulo Alexandre Lima

12 Between Care of the Other and Truth-Telling: the Place of Epicureanism in the Interrupted Dialogue between Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot

Federico Testa

PART 4: Hermeneutical Questions

13 Physics, Periodization & Platonism: Inflecting the Foucault-Hadot Dialogue in Light of

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Faustino, Ph.D. (2013), is an Appointed Research Fellow at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA/NOVA-FCSH). She has published several articles and chapters on Nietzsche, Hadot and Foucault and co-edited five books, including The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Hélder Telo, Ph.D. (2018), is an Appointed Research Fellow at Praxis: Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Culture (University of Beira Interior, Portugal). He has published articles and chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism and Heidegger, among others, and co-edited two books, including In the Mirror of the Phaedrus (Academia, 2013).