Dying for Ideas

The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers

EAN:  9781472529718
Publicatie datum:   30-04-2017
Uitvoering:  Paperback / softback
Taal:  Engels
Aantal pagina's:  272

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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.

    EAN: 9781472529718
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    Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing
    Publicatie datum:   30-04-2017
    Uitvoering: Paperback / softback
    Taal: Engels
    Hoogte: 198 mm
    Breedte: 129 mm
    Status: Niet op voorraad
    Aantal pagina's: 272