Dying for Ideas : The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers
Saved in:
| Title: | Dying for Ideas : The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers |
|---|---|
| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Costica Bradatan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Death--Social aspects, Philosophers--Death |
| Categories: | PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| FullText | Links: – Type: ebook-pdf – Type: ebook-epub Text: Availability: 0 |
|---|---|
| Header | DbId: nlebk DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) An: 1717369 RelevancyScore: 1064 AccessLevel: 6 PubType: eBook PubTypeId: ebook PreciseRelevancyScore: 1063.91076660156 |
| IllustrationInfo | |
| ImageInfo | – Size: thumb Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$1717369$PDF&s=r – Size: medium Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$1717369$PDF&s=d |
| Items | – Name: Title Label: Title Group: Ti Data: Dying for Ideas : The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers – Name: Abstract Label: Description Group: Ab Data: 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. – Name: Author Label: Authors Group: Au Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Costica+Bradatan%22">Costica Bradatan</searchLink> – Name: TypePub Label: Resource Type Group: TypPub Data: eBook. – Name: Subject Label: Subjects Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Death--Social+aspects%22">Death--Social aspects</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Philosophers--Death%22">Philosophers--Death</searchLink> – Name: SubjectBISAC Label: Categories Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22PHILOSOPHY+%2F+General%22">PHILOSOPHY / General</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22PHILOSOPHY+%2F+History+%26+Surveys+%2F+Ancient+%26+Classical%22">PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22PHILOSOPHY+%2F+Movements+%2F+Existentialism%22">PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism</searchLink> |
| PLink | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=1717369 |
| RecordInfo | BibRecord: BibEntity: Classifications: – Code: 109.2 Scheme: ddc Type: prePub Languages: – Code: eng Text: English Subjects: – SubjectFull: Death--Social aspects Type: general – SubjectFull: Philosophers--Death Type: general Titles: – TitleFull: Dying for Ideas : The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers Type: main BibRelationships: HasContributorRelationships: – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Costica Bradatan – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Costica Bradatan IsPartOfRelationships: – BibEntity: Dates: – D: 01 M: 01 Type: published Y: 2015 – D: 01 M: 03 Type: profile Y: 2018 Identifiers: – Type: isbn-print Value: 9781472525512 – Type: isbn-print Value: 9781472529718 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9781472522306 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9781472525826 Titles: – TitleFull: Dying for Ideas : The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers Type: main |
| ResultId | 1 |
