Series: Re-inventing Philosophy as a Way of Life

In this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life in the Western tradition, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure take us through the history of the idea from Socrates and Plato, via the medievals, Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Foucault and Hadot. They examine the kinds of practical exercises each thinker recommended to transform their...

This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau. The Ethics of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines has long been recognised as one of the best and most concerted attempts to explore one of the most important, yet controversial ancient philosophers whose thought, Guyau claims, remains vital to modern...

This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and, in some cases, untranslated materials from one of the world's most prominent classical philosophers and historians of thought. As a passionate proponent of philosophy as a 'way of life' (most powerfully communicated in the life of Socrates), Pierre Hadot rejuvenated interest in the ancient...