Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy
Critical Assessments
17-18 November 2021
Daniele Lorenzini
“Parrhēsia as a Way of Life”
Paulo Lima
“Discourse or Pure Visibility? A Question Concerning Foucault’s Latest Account of Parrhēsia”
Hélder Telo
“The Central Role of Reason and Rational Argument in Ancient Philosophy: On a Common Objection to Hadot and Foucault”
Annie Larivée
“Clearing Up the Confusion Between Art of Life and Way of Life: A Challenge to Hadot’s Main Interpretive Concept”
Fábio Serranito
“Foucault, Reader of Plato: The Problem of Epimeleia tou Biou”
Paul Allen Miller
“The Problem of the Dandy in the Aesthetics of Existence: Foucault’s Dialogue with Hadot, Kant, and Baudelaire”
Matthew Sharpe
“Between Physics and Ethics, the Other: Inflecting the Hadot-Foucault Debate in Light of L’herméneutique du sujet”
Eli Kramer
“The Pregnant Possibilities of Creative Misreading: Toward a Hadotian Hermeneutics of the Legacy of the Ancient Adventure of Ideas”
Marta Faustino
“A Contamination of Philosophy by Religion? Reassessing Hadot’s Notion of Spiritual Exercises”
Gianfranco Ferraro
“Philosophical Mythoi: The Birth of Spirituality from the Nature of Things”
Konrad Banicki
“Ancient Stoicism. Between Spiritual Exercises and Cognitive Therapy”
Michael Chase
“Pierre Hadot and His Critics on Spiritual Exercises and Cosmic Consciousness”