'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life': The Letters of Great Thinkers

ISBN-13: 9781350089198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Ada Bronowski

Opis

The first book to collect together letters from some of the greatest thinkers in human history.

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: Be Present!, Epicurus to Menoeceus, by Ada BronowskiChapter 2: The Price of Time, Seneca to Lucilius, by Christelle VeillardChapter 3: The Self-Punishing Student of a Doting Teacher, Marcus Aurelius to Fronto, by Ada Bronowski and Gweltaz Guyormac'hChapter 4: A Philosophy for the Poor from a Cynical God, Kronos to the Poor by Lucian of Samosata, by Alberto CamerottoChapter 5: Real Philosophy for Real People, René Descartes to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Marie-Frédérique PellegrinChapter 6: Good Intentions and the Resistance of Reality, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia's reply to René Descartes, by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Marie-Frédérique PellegrinChapter 7: The Green Carpet in Your Mind is Not In Your Mind, Anne Conway to Henry More, by Sarah HuttonChapter 8: A Philosopher-Empress in a Revolutionary World, Catherine the Great to the Prince de Ligne, by Kelsey Rubin-DetlevChapter 9: From Exile with Love, Germaine de Stael to Madame de Tessé, by Catriona SethChapter 10: Erotic Affinities, Winckelmann to Usteri, by Katherine HarloeChapter 11: Rational Empiricism?, Schiller to Goethe by Dalia NassarChapter 12: 'What then is Happiness, my dear friend?', Leopardi to Jacopssen, by Luigi CapitanoChapter 13: A Philosophy of Love, Flora Tristan to Charles Fillieu, by Máire Fedelma CrossChapter 14: Just the Magnificence of Reality, Thoreau to Blake, by Rick Anthony FurtakChapter 15: De Profundis: A Philosophical Letter, Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, by Stefano EvangelistaChapter 16: A Correspondence Theory of Truth, Mahatma Gandhi to Maganlal Gandhi, by Nicholas J. OwenChapter 17: Dispelling the Tower of Fear, Rainer Maria Rilke to Lotte Hepner, by Charlie LouthChapter 18: The Epic Side of Truth, Walter Benjamin to Gershom Scholem, by Daniela HelbigChapter 19: 'A Shit on a Pedestal', Francois Truffaut to Jean-Luc Goddard, by Antoine de BaecqueChapter 20: A Philosophy of Dance, Maurice Béjart to Nahuelt, by Ada Bronowskibibliographyindex

O autorze

Ada Bronowski is Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of Humanities, London, UK