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Dying For Ideas : The Dangerous Lives Of The Philosophers
Paperback Edition: 1
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. Dying for Ideas explores the 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.
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Pages : 238
Publisher : Bloomsbury Professional
Publication date : 2017-04-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Philosophy