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Author:   Kurt Lampe (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Janae Sholtz (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Alvernia University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350204010

ISBN 10:   1350204013
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: Stoicism, Language, and Freedom, Kurt Lampe, University of Bristol, UK 2. Sartre, Stoicism, and the Problem of Moral Responsibility (from 1939 to 1948), Olivier D’Jeranian, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France 3. Sartrian Ontology and the Stoic Theory of Incorporeals, Suzanne Husson, Université Paris-Sorbonne, and Laurent Husson, Université de Lorraine, France 4. Deleuzean Exercises and the Inversion of Stoicism, Janae Sholtz, Alvernia University, USA 5. How and why did Badiou beat Deleuze with a Stoic stick (and was he right?), Thomas Bénatouïl, University of Lille, France 6. Kristeva, Stoicism, and the “True Life of Interpretations”, Kurt Lampe, University of Bristol, UK 7. Indifference and Affirmation: Michel Foucault on Stoic Fate and Providence, John Sellars, Royal Holoway, University of London, UK 8. Veridiction and Parrhesia: the Complex Case of Foucault’s Reading of Stoicism, Valery Laurand, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France 9. Stoicism: Political Resistance or Retreat? Foucault and Arendt, Michael Ure, Monash University, Australia 10. Stoicism, Ambiguity, and the Decision of Sense, Barbara Cassin, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France 11. Stoic Philosophy of Language in Giorgio Agamben’s Thought, Nicoletta Di Vita, Università degli studi di Padova, Italy 12. Making Use of Agamben’s “Stoic Providence-Fate Apparatus”: A Reading of Seneca’s Consolation to Polybius, Clifford Robinson, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, USA 13. Pierre Hadot: Stoicism as a Way of Life, Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia Index

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'Lampe and Sholtz have put together a uniquely informative collection showing the extensive and sometimes surprising influence of Stoic ideas on recent French and Italian thinkers including such luminaries as Sartre, Deleuze, Badiou, Kristeva, Foucault and Agamben, as well as thinkers who should be better known in the English-speaking world (and perhaps now will be) like Barbara Cassin and Pierre Hadot.' * Alistair Welchman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA * 'French and Italian Stoicisms presents a valuable overview of the often subtle and surprisingly diverse ways in which ancient Stoic philosophy has influenced modern thinkers such as Sartre, Deleuze, Kristeva, Foucault, Agamben, and Hadot. The contributors to this book are themselves revitalizing Stoicism by drawing our attention to unfamiliar perspectives on a tradition, which deserves to be explored and evaluated by us now more than ever before.' * Donald Robertson, author of Stoicism and the Art of Happiness and How to Think Like a Roman Emperor. * This volume breaks new ground in its close examination of French and Italian twentieth-century responses to Stoicism, especially on the topics of language and freedom. A series of thoughtful and perceptive essays open up a complex intellectual terrain that will be of interest both to students of modern Continental philosophy and Stoicism. * Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter, UK *

Author Information

Kurt Lampe is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol, UK and the author of The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life (2015). He is also the co-editor of German Stoicisms (forthcoming, Bloomsbury). Janae Sholtz is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University, USA. She is the author of The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (2015) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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