Dying for Ideas: On the Dangerous Life of Philosophers – Bradatan Kostika – New Literary Review – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2201-2
Dying for Ideas: On the Dangerous Life of Philosophers
Dying for Ideas: On the Dangerous Life of Philosophers
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What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More and Jan Patočka have in common? One day, they all faced the most difficult choice: to die faithful to their ideas, or to renounce them and stay alive. And each of them chose death. Death became not only an integral part of their biographies, but also a philosophical statement - a testament in the truest sense of the word.
"Socrates may have never written a single line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical bestsellers of all time." Kostika Bradatan's book Dying for Ideas explores the ultimate situation in which philosophers find themselves when their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their deaths become the last means of convincing them of their rightness.
The work is based primarily on materials from the history of philosophy, but it offers an interdisciplinary approach to the central problem. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's "fast unto death" and the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk, about Girard and Pasolini, self-improvement and the art of the essay. Philosophy, according to the author, should not be only an academic exercise, but an art of living, and any art of living is accompanied by the art of dying.
Costica Bradatan is a well-known contemporary American philosopher, professor at Honors College at Texas Tech University.
"Socrates may have never written a single line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical bestsellers of all time." Kostika Bradatan's book Dying for Ideas explores the ultimate situation in which philosophers find themselves when their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their deaths become the last means of convincing them of their rightness.
The work is based primarily on materials from the history of philosophy, but it offers an interdisciplinary approach to the central problem. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's "fast unto death" and the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk, about Girard and Pasolini, self-improvement and the art of the essay. Philosophy, according to the author, should not be only an academic exercise, but an art of living, and any art of living is accompanied by the art of dying.
Costica Bradatan is a well-known contemporary American philosopher, professor at Honors College at Texas Tech University.
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