Category Archives: Pierre Hadot

Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, April 2023

Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, trans. Michael Chase, April 2023 The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English.With a foreword by Arnold I. … Continue reading

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Professors at the Collège de France 1985 – Bourdieu, Duby, Dumézil, Hadot, Veyne, et. al.

This photograph of professors at the Collège de France is interesting, and I’m curious about who else is in here. It was posted on Twitter by Jorge Galindo, who indicates some of the people – a. Pierre Bourdieu b. Georges … Continue reading

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My favourite academic books of 2020

As with previous years, these are a list of academic books published this year which I read and appreciated. This means that good books which I haven’t yet read don’t feature, and I will of course miss many. Several of … Continue reading

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Books received – Hadot, Nail, TCS on Barthes, Eco, Ewald, Billé

Some books waiting for me in the office – The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, Thomas Nail, Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion, the Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Neutral Life/Late Barthes, Umberto Eco, The Role of the … Continue reading

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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019

The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019 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 … Continue reading

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Books received – more for the Foucault project

A few books for the Foucault project, including two by Pierre Hadot.

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