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Item Details
Title:
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THE THERAPY OF DESIRE
THEORY AND PRACTICE IN HELLENISTIC ETHICS |
By: |
Martha C. Nussbaum |
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Paperback |
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£35.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0691141312 |
ISBN 13: |
9780691141312 |
Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
14 July, 2009 |
Edition: |
With a New introduction by the author |
Pages: |
584 |
Description: |
Examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm - including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca - and recovers a source for our moral and political thought. |
Synopsis: |
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought today. This edition features a new introduction by Nussbaum, in which she revisits the themes of this now classic work. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
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Returnable |
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