Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault by Pierre Hadot, Arnold Davidson

Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault

Pierre Hadot, Arnold Davidson

320 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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