Dying for ideas : the dangerous lives of the philosophers /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NK, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FC; Half title; Also Available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Quote; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Philosophy as self-fashioning; 2 The first layer; 3 Philosophy in the flesh; 4 The second layer; 5 The making of a martyr-philosopher; Postscript: To die laughing; Notes; Bibliography; Index.