Description |
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. |
Summary |
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 explore. |
Contents |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Philosophers -- Death.
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Philosophers. |
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Death. |
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Death -- Social aspects.
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Death -- Social aspects. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781472522306 |
ISBN |
1472522303 (electronic book) |
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9781472522306 (electronic book) |
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9781472525826 (electronic book) |
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1472525825 (electronic book) |
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9781472529718 (paperback) |
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1472529715 |
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1472525515 |
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1472529715 |
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1472525825 |
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