Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy

Marta Faustino, Ph.D. (2013), is an Appointed Research Fellow at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA/NOVA-FCSH). She has published several articles and chapters on Nietzsche, Hadot and Foucault and co-edited five books, including The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions (Bloomsbury, 2020). Hélder Telo, Ph.D. (2018), is an Appointed Research Fellow at Praxis: Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Culture (University of Beira Interior, Portugal). He has published articles and chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism and Heidegger, among others, and co-edited two books, including In the Mirror of the Phaedrus (Academia, 2013).

Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Task of Assessing Hadot’s and Foucault’s Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy

 Marta Faustino and Hélder Telo



PART 1: General Accounts



1 To What Extent Can Greek Philosophy Be Characterized as an “Art of Living”?

 Christoph Horn

2 Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life Examined: Clearing up the Confusion between “Way of Life” and “Art of Life”

 Annie Larivée

3 The Problem of the Dandy in the Aesthetics of Existence: Foucault’s Dialogue with Hadot, Kant, and Baudelaire

 Paul Allen Miller



PART 2: Spirituality



4 Philosophical Mythoi: the Birth of Spirituality from the Nature of Things

 Gianfranco Ferraro

5 A Contamination of Philosophy by Religion? Reassessing Hadot’s Notion of Spiritual Exercises

 Marta Faustino

6 Pierre Hadot and His Critics on Spiritual Exercises and Cosmic Consciousness: from Ancient Philosophy to Contemporary Neurology

 Michael Chase

7 Ancient Stoicism: between Spiritual Exercises and Cognitive Therapy

 Konrad Banicki

8 Towards a Comparative Archaeology of the Notion of “Spiritual”: Michel Foucault and “Ancient Philosophy” as “Spirituality”

 Pierre Vesperini



PART 3: Logos and Truth



9 On the Role of Reason in Ancient Philosophical Practice: an Intellectualist Reframing of Hadot’s and Foucault’s Approach

 Hélder Telo

10 Foucault on Parrhēsia and Rhetoric: a Reassessment

 Daniele Lorenzini

11 From Speech to Pure Visibility: a Problem in Foucault’s Conception of Socratic Parrhesia

 Paulo Alexandre Lima

12 Between Care of the Other and Truth-Telling: the Place of Epicureanism in the Interrupted Dialogue between Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot

 Federico Testa



PART 4: Hermeneutical Questions



13 Physics, Periodization & Platonism: Inflecting the Foucault-Hadot Dialogue in Light of L’Herméneutique du sujet

 Matthew Sharpe

14 Foucault, Reader of Plato: the Problem of ἐπιμέλεια τοῦ βίου

 Fábio Serranito

15 Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life

 John Sellars

16 Creative Error Genealogy: toward a Method in the History of Philosophy

 Eli Kramer and Gary Herstein



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