The Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like...
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The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought today. This edition features a new introduction by Nussbaum, in which she revisits the themes of this now classic work.
Autoren-Porträt von Martha C. Nussbaum
Martha C. Nussbaum, geboren 1947, ist Ernst Freud Professor of Law and Ethics an der University of Chicago. An derselben Universität lehrt sie außerdem in den Fächern Rechtswissenschaft, Theologie und Klassische Philologie. Neben zahlreichen Schriften zur Philosophie der Antike hat sie vor allem Arbeiten über moralphilosophische Themen veröffentlicht. Dabei behandelt sie oft Fragen am Schnittpunkt zwischen Ethik, öffentlicher Moral, Literatur und Problemen des Feminismus. 1993 hielt sie die renommierten Gifford Lectures über Themen der Moralphilosophie und der Philosophie der Psychologie.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Martha C. Nussbaum
- Revised ed, 584 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691141312
- ISBN-13: 9780691141312
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2009
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Englisch
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"Nussbaum adventurously straddles boundaries conventionally drawn between philosophy and its own history, between philosophy and literature, and between scholarship and the social sciences. . . . Few modern books have done as much as this one promises to do in raising the profile of Hellenistic philosophy. It is constantly gripping and absorbing, written with rare eloquence and containing long stretches of almost lyrical intensity. A literary as well as a philosophical tour de force."--David Sedley, Times Literary Supplement
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