{"product_id":"philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-9781350102149","title":"Philosophy as a Way of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 philosophy into manners of living.\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy as a Way of Life\u003c\/i\u003e also examines the recent resurgence of thinking about philosophy as a practical, lived reality and why this ancient tradition still has so much relevance and power in the contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharpe and Ure have written a fantastic book and have made an important contribution to PWL as a sub-discipline. They acknowledge their debt to Hadot whilst building upon his work with their own scholarship in an outstanding way. The book works well for both the specialist and as an introduction for the beginner. It encourages a radical and welcome rethinking of what philosophy actually is and allows us to see it in a new and exciting way, not just as something to be studied, but as something to be lived. * Philosophy in Review *\u003cbr\u003eNot just arguments but a call to a way of life – this is the vision of philosophy that is traced in this book, from Socrates to Nietzsche and Foucault. Inspired by the work of Pierre and Ilsetraut Hadot, the authors offer for the first time an alternative history that gives philosophy’s transformative promise its due. * David Konstan, Professor of Classics, New York University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eI highly recommend this book.  It offers an extraordinarily rich and insightful dive into what it means for philosophy to be a way of life--not simply an object of abstract study.  Along the way, it showcases not only many giants of philosophy, but also neglected and underappreciated figures and traditions, all with skill, subtle attention to detail, and clarity.  A very impressive and important work. * Stephen Grimm, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eSharpe and Ure have undertaken a hugely ambitious task and they have completed it admirably. They have produced a rich and fascinating study of both the concept and the history of philosophy understood as a way of life. It must surely become a standard point of reference in any future discussions of this topic but it also deserves to be widely read by anyone interested in the history of philosophy and in the very concept of philosophy itself. * John Sellars, Reader in Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy as a Way of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a milestone in the contemporary re-appraisal of this ancient concept.  For anyone interested in the history of philosophy or the topic of metaphilosophy, this surely fills an important gap in the literature. It will provide an invaluable foundation for future research in this area. * Donald Robertson, Author of \"Stoicism And The Art Of Happiness\" and \"How To Think Like A Roman Emperor\" *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  \u003cb\u003ePart 1: The Ancients\u003c\/b\u003e  Ch. 1.    Socrates and the Inception of Philosophy as a Way of Life 1.1            the \u003ci\u003eatopia \u003c\/i\u003eof Socrates 1.2            a founding exception 1.3            Socrates contra the Sophists 1.4            the \u003ci\u003eelenchus\u003c\/i\u003e as spiritual exercise 1.5            care of the psyche 1.6            the sage and the Socratic paradoxes 1.7            the Socratic legacy   Ch. 2.    Epicureanism: Philosophy as a Divine Way of Life             2.1        Introduction              2.2        Epicureanism as way of life, therapy, and of writing             2.3        the turn inwards: against empty opinions, unnatural and unnecessary desires             2.4        Epicurus’ revaluation of happiness, pleasure and the good             2.5        the gods and the figure of the sage             2.6        the four-fold cure, and physics as spiritual exercise             2.7        spiritual exercises in the garden             2.7`       Criticisms   Ch. 3.    Stoicism: Philosophy as the Art of Living 3.1        Wisdom, knowledge of things human and divine, and an art of living             3.2        The Socratic lineage: dialectic, the emotions, and the sufficiency of virtue             3.3        From Musonius Rufus to Seneca             3.4        Epictetus’ Paranetic Discourses, and his Handbook             3.5        Marcus Aurelius’ \u003ci\u003eMeditations \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eTa Eis Heauton\u003c\/i\u003e) Ch. 4.    Platonisms as Ways of Life             4.1        Introduction: Platonism\u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003e             4.2        From Arcesilaus to Pyrrhonism: scepticism as a way life             4.3        Cicero: the philosopher as rhetorician and physician of the soul             4.4        Plotinus’ philosophical mysticism             4.5        Boethius and the end of ancient philosophy   \u003cb\u003ePart 2: medievals and early moderns\u003c\/b\u003e Ch. 5.    Philosophy as a way of life in the middle ages             5.1        On Christianity as “philosophy” 5.2        Monastic \u003ci\u003ephilosophia\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Christianisation of spiritual exercises 5.3        Scholasticism, the theoreticisation of \u003ci\u003ephilosophia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u0026amp; the ascendancy of dialectic 5.4        Counter-strains: from Abelard to Dante’s \u003ci\u003eIl Convivio\u003c\/i\u003e  Ch. 6.    The Renaissance of Philosophy as a Way of Life             6.1        Philosophy, the \u003ci\u003ehumanisti\u003c\/i\u003e, and the ascendancy of rhetoric             6.2        Petrarch’s Christian-Stoic medicines of the mind             6.3        Montaigne: The essayist as philosopher             6.4        Justus Lipsius’ Neostoicism  Ch. 7.    \u003ci\u003eCultura Animi\u003c\/i\u003e in Early Modern Philosophy             7.1        The end of PWL (again)?             7.2        Francis Bacon: the Idols and the Georgics of the mind             7.3        On Descartes, Method and Meditations   Ch. 8.    Figures of the \u003ci\u003ephilosophe\u003c\/i\u003e in the French enlightenment             8.1        “The \u003ci\u003ephilosophe\u003c\/i\u003e”             8.2        Voltaire and the view from Sirius             8.3        Diderot and his Seneca   \u003cb\u003ePart 3: the moderns\u003c\/b\u003e Interlude: The Nineteenth Century Conflict between PWL and University Philosophy   Ch. 9. Schopenhauer: Philosophy as the Way Out of Life             9.1        Introduction             9.2        Philosophy against sophistry (again)             9.3        Two cheers for Stoicism             9.4        The Saint versus the Sage             9.5        Schopenhauerian salvation   Ch. 10. Nietzsche: Philosophy as the Return to Life             10.1      Introduction             10.2      Nietzsche’s metaphilosophical meditations             10.3      Nietzsche’s philosophy as a spiritual exercise             10.4      Nietzsche’s spiritual exercise: eternal recurrence             10.5      Conclusion   Ch. 11. Foucault’sReinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life 11.1      Philosophical heroism: Foucault’s Cynics 11.2      Foucault’s reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life 11.3      Genealogy as spiritual exercise 11.4      Conclusion   Conclusion             1.          PWL, today             2.          History, declines and rebirths             3.          Criticisms             4.          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