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Dying for Ideas

- The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers
Af: Costica Bradatan Engelsk Paperback

Dying for Ideas

- The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers
Af: Costica Bradatan Engelsk Paperback
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What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ideas" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time. Dying for Ideas explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death. The book tells the story of the philosopher's encounter with death as seen from several angles: the tradition of philosophy as an art of living; the body as the site of self-transcending; death as a classical philosophical topic; taming death and self-fashioning; finally, the philosophers' scapegoating and their live performance of a martyr's death, followed by apotheosis and disappearance into myth. While rooted in the history of philosophy, Dying for Ideas is an exercise in breaking disciplinary boundaries. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's "fasting unto death" and self-immolation; about Girard and Passolini, and self-fashioning and the art of the essay.
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What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ideas" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time. Dying for Ideas explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death. The book tells the story of the philosopher's encounter with death as seen from several angles: the tradition of philosophy as an art of living; the body as the site of self-transcending; death as a classical philosophical topic; taming death and self-fashioning; finally, the philosophers' scapegoating and their live performance of a martyr's death, followed by apotheosis and disappearance into myth. While rooted in the history of philosophy, Dying for Ideas is an exercise in breaking disciplinary boundaries. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's "fasting unto death" and self-immolation; about Girard and Passolini, and self-fashioning and the art of the essay.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781472529718
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1472529715
Udg. Dato: 22 mar 2018
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 138mm
Højde: 215mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 22 mar 2018
Forfatter(e): Costica Bradatan
Forfatter(e) Costica Bradatan


Kategori Sociologi: døden og døende


ISBN-13 9781472529718


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 256


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 138mm


Højde 215mm


Udg. Dato 22 mar 2018


Oplagsdato 22 mar 2018


Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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