Michael Chase (PhD EPHE Paris, 2000) is a Researcher at the CNRS Centre Jean Pépin/ENS, PSL Research University, Paris, and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Trained as a Classical scholar, he has published widely in the history of Greek, Latin, and Islamic philosophy and their relations to contemporary science. As a student of Pierre Hadot, he has translated six of Hadot’s books into English, most recently Don’t Forget to Live. Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises (U. of Chicago Press,to be published 2023), and was co-editor, with S. R. L. Clark, and M. McGhee, of Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancient and Moderns. Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2013). With M. Sharpe and E. Kramer, he is co-founder and co-director of the Brill series Philosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies. In addition to numerous online presentations, he has been invited to teach or lecture on PWL as a Visiting Professor in Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and Italy, among others.
Email address: chasemike780@gmail.com
Institutional webpage: https://umr8230.cnrs.fr/membres/michael-chase/ and https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/users/jmchase