Description
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.
Author: Pierre Hadot
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08/03/1995
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.08w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780631180333
ISBN10: 0631180338
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
Author: Pierre Hadot
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08/03/1995
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.08w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780631180333
ISBN10: 0631180338
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
About the Author
Pierre Hadot is Professor of the History of Hellenistic and Roman Thought at the College de France. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1942 to 1946, later becoming first a researcher and then director of studies at the École Practique des Hautes Études in Paris. He is the author of several landmark essays, collected together in Exercices Spirituels et Philosophie Antique (Second Edition, 1987).