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The Team’s Publications on PWL
Books
Caeiro, António, Reflections on Everyday Life ,
Clements, Niki K., Sites of the Ascetic Self. John Cassian and Early Christian Ethical Formation
D’Agostino, Simone, Esercizi spirituali e filosofia moderna: Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza
Kramer, Eli, Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One. Principles to Guide Philosophical Community ,
Lorenzini, Daniele, Éthique et politique de soi: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire
Lorenzini, Daniele, La force du vrai: De Foucault à Austin
Macor, Laura Anna, Il mestiere di uomo. La concezione pratica della filosofia nel tardo illuminismo tedesco ,
Nehamas, Alexander, The Art of Living. Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault ,
Sellars, John, The Art of Living. The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy ,
Sharpe, Matthew / Ure, Michael, Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions
Ure, Michael, Nietzsche’s Therapy – Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works
Edited volumes
Ambury, James M. / Irani, Tushar / Wallace, Kathleen (eds.), Philosophy as a Way of Life. Historical, Contemporary and Pedagogical Perspectives ,
Bursztyka, Przemysław / Kramer, Eli / Rychter, Marcin / Auxier, Randall (eds.), Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life: Contemporary Reflections and Applications
Chase, Michael / Clark, Stephen / McGhee, Michael (eds.), Philosophy as a Way of Life, Ancients and Moderns: Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot
Faustino, Marta / Ferraro, Gianfranco (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions ,
Kramer, Eli / Sharpe, Matthew / Chase, Michael (eds.), Philosophy as a Way of Life in a Time of Crisis , Eidos, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2021.
Testa, Federico / Faustino, Marta (org.), Filosofia como modo de vida: Ensaios escolhidos
Journal special issues
Spadafora, Giuseppe / Kramer, Eli (eds.), Special Issue: Pragmatism for Pandemic Times: Deweyan Approaches , Dewey Studies , Vol. 6, No. 1, 2022.
Kramer, Eli / Chase, Michael / Sharpe, Matthew Sharpe (eds.), Thematic Issue: Philosophy as a Way of Life During a Time of Crises, Part 1 , Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 5, no. 1, 2021.
Kramer, Eli / Chase, Michael / Sharpe, Matthew Sharpe (eds.), Thematic Issue: Philosophy as a Way of Life During a Time of Crises, Part 2 , Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 5, no. 2, 2021.
Articles
Ding, Xiaojun / Yu, Feng / Xu, Liying, “Diagnosis and Treatment of Contemporary Chinese College Students’ ‘Empty Heart Disease’: Based on the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Counseling and Therapy” , in Journal of Humanities Therapy , Vol. 10, No. 1, 2019, pp. 1-31.
Ding, Xiaojun / Yu, Feng, “Philosophical Practice as Spiritual Exercises towards Truth, Wisdom, and Virtue” , in Religions , Vol. 13, No. 4, 2022, pp. 1-22.
Ding, Xiaojun / Shang, Bingxing / Yu, Feng, “How to Cope with Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Perspectives of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism” , in Religions , Vol. 13, No. 11, 2022, pp. 1-26.
Ding, Xiaojun / Ma, Yueyao / Yu, Feng / Abadal, Lily M., “The Therapy of Desire in Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned from Buddhism and Stoicism” , in Religions , Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023, pp. 1-24.
Faustino, Marta, “Philosophy as a Way of Life Today: History, Criticism, and Apology” , Metaphilosophy , Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2020, pp. 357-374.
Faustino, Marta, “East and West on the tension between ars erotica and ars vivendi ”, in Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 5, Nr. 4, 2021, pp. 147-151.
Faustino, Marta, “Filosofia: uma escolha de vida? Hadot, Foucault e a ‘filosofia como modo de vida’ como prática de dissidência e experimentação” , in Revista Apoena , Vol. 4, No. 7, 2022, pp. 91-109.
Grimm, Stephen / Cohoe, Caleb, “What is Philosophy as a Way of Life? Why Philosophy as a Way of Life?” , in European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 29, 2020, pp. 236-251.
Kramer, Eli, “Philosophical Wandering as a Mode of Philosophy in Cultural Life: From Diogenes of Sinope to Cornel West” , in Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2, No. 3 (5), 2018, pp. 51-73.
Kramer, Eli, “Meditating on the Vitality of the Musical Object: A Spiritual Exercise Drawn from Richard Wagner’s Metaphysics of Music” , in Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 3, No. 3 (9), 2019, pp. 29-42.
Kramer, Eli, “Ancient Philosophical Inspirations for Pandemiconium ” , Editorial, Thematic Issue: Philosophy as a Way of Life During a Time of Crises, Part 1, Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture , Vol. 5, No. 1, 2021, pp. 1-6.
Kramer, Eli, “Playing Philosopher King: A Deweyan (Re)consolation of Philosophy for Pandemic Times (and the Times to Come)” , Special Issue: Pragmatism for Pandemic Times: Deweyan Approaches, Dewey Studies , Vol. 6, No. 1, 2022, pp. 522-566.
Kramer, Eli / Faustino, Marta, “Reconstructing Professional Philosophy: Lessons from Philosophy as a Way of Life in Times of Crises” , in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, Vol. 77, No. 2-3, 2021, pp. 513-546.
Lamberti, Pablo / Tetsuya, Kōno, “Fighting for Sophia. The Intimate Relationship between Martial Arts and Philosophy as a Way of Life ”, in Tetsugaku, Vol. 7, 2023, pp. 124-142.
Lorenzini, Daniele, “Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations ”, in Theory, Culture & Society , 2021.
Lorenzini, Daniele, “La fragilité de l’intellect: Martha Nussbaum, Aristote et la vie bonne ”, Revue philosophique , Vol. 147, 2022, pp. 165-175.
Ma, Yueyao / Ding, Xiaojun / Yu, Feng, “Horizontal Thinking vs Vertical Thinking: A Comparison between Chinese and Western Philosophical Counseling based on Socrates and Confucius” , in Journal of Humanities Therapy , Vol. 12, No. 2, 2021, pp. 37-58.
Mueller, Laura J. / Kramer, Eli, “Let’s be Frank: Revitalizing Frank Friendship in the Contemporary Philosophical Classroom” , in American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy , Vol. 6, 2021, pp. 53-73.
Mueller, Laura, “Modern Socratic Dialogue and Resilient Democracy: Creating the Clearing for an American Bildung ” , in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy , Vol. 43, No. 1, 2022, pp. 40-66.
Nehamas, Alexander, “Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of Life” , in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 78, No. 2, 2004, pp. 25-42.
Nehamas, Alexander, “Nietzsche, Intention, Action” , European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2018, pp. 685-701.
Odyniec, Pawel, “Rethinking Advaita Within the Colonial Predicament: the ‘Confrontative’ Philosophy of K. C. Bhattacharyya (1875–1949)” , in Sophia , No. 57, 2018, pp. 405-424.
Sellars, John, “Shaftesbury, Stoicism, and Philosophy as a Way of Life” , in Sophia , Vol. 55, No. 3, 2016), pp. 395-408.
Sellars, John, “What is Philosophy as a Way of Life?” , in parrhesia, 28, 2017, pp. 40-56.
Sellars, John, “Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy as a Way of Life” , in Metaphilosophy, Vol. 51, Nos. 2-3, 2020, pp. 226-243.
Sharpe, Matthew, “It’s not the Chrysippus You Read: Epictetus and Hadot Contra Cooper on Philosophy as a Way of Life” , in Philosophy Today, Vol. 58, No. 3, 2014, pp. 367-392.
Sharpe, Matthew, “What Place Discourse, What Role Rigorous Argumentation? Against a Certain Image of Pierre Hadot’s Metaphilosophy” , in Pli Journal , 2016, pp. 25-54.
Sharpe, Matthew, “Between Too Intellectualist and Not Intellectualist Enough: Reading Pierre Hadot via Julia Annas” , in Journal of Value Inquiry 55, 2021, pp. 269-287.
Sharpe, Matthew / Kramer, Eli / Chase, Michael, “Pressing Questions for the Philosophical Life in a Time of Crisis” , Editorial, Thematic Issue: Philosophy as a Way of Life During a Time of Crises, Part 2, Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture , Vol. 5, No. 2, 2021, pp. 1-6.
Sharpe, Matthew / Stettler, Matteo, “Of Cartesianism and Spiritual Exercises: Reading Descartes through Hadot, and Hadot through Descartes” , in Philosophy Today, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2022.
Sharpe, Matthew / Turner, Kirk, “Bibliopolitics: The History of Notation and the Birth of the Citational Academic Subject” , in Foucault Studies, No. 25, 2018, pp. 146-173.
Telo, Hélder, “Relational Self-Care in Aristotle: A Foucaultian and Feminist Reading” , in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie , Vol. 64, No. 1, 2020, pp. 85-102.
Telo, Hélder. “Plato’s Philosophical Mimesis: On the Pedagogical and Protreptic Value of Imperfection” , in Schole: Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition , Vol. 16, No. 2, 2022, pp. 520-549.
Book chapters
Ansell-Pearson, Keith / Faustino, Marta, “Philosophy as a Way of Life in Thus Spoke Zarathustra ” , in K. Ansell-Pearson / P. Loeb, Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. A Critical Guide, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 41-61.
Chase, Michael, “Observations on Pierre Hadot’s Conception of Philosophy as a Way of Life” , in M. Chase / S. Clark / M. McGhee (eds.), Philosophy as a Way of Life, Ancients and Moderns: Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot , Chichester, Blackwell, 2013, pp. 262-86.
Faustino, Marta, “‘Philosophy as a Way of Life’ as a Practice of Dissidence and Experimentation” , in J. M. Justo et al. (ed.), Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021, pp. 340-357.
Faustino, Marta, “Nietzsche and the Art of Forming His Readers: The 1886 Prefaces” , in M. Béland / C. Denat / C. Piazzesi / P. Wotling (eds.), Nietzsche On Making Sense of Nietzsche / Comprendre Nietzsche selon Nietzsche, Reims, ÉPURE, 2021, pp. 249-264.
Kramer, Eli, “The Virtues of Philosophy of Culture: Symbolizing Cassirer as a Renaissance Sage” , in P. Bursztyka / E. Kramer / M. Rychter / R. Auxier (eds.), Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life: Contemporary Reflections and Applications , Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2022, pp. 195-220.
Kramer, Eli, “Meditating on the Vitality of the Musical Object: A Spiritual Exercise Drawn from Richard Wagner’s Metaphysics of Music [updated edition]” , in J. Kemling (ed.), The Cultural Power of Personal Objects: Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives , Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 2021, pp. 195-220.
Lorenzini, Daniele, “La vie comme ‘réel’ de la philosophie: Cavell, Foucault, Hadot et les techniques de l’ordinaire” , in S. Laugier (ed.), La voix et la vertu: Variétés du perfectionnisme moral , Paris, P.U.F., 2010, pp. 469-487.
Lorenzini, Daniele, “Ethics as Politics: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell, and the Critique of Our Present” , in M. Tazzioli / S. Fuggle / Y. Lanci (eds.), Foucault and the History of Our Present (Basingstoke: Palsgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 223-235.
Macor, Laura Anna, “‘Gymnastik des Geistes’: Lessing und die Aufklärung als Lebensform” , in C. Duttlinger / K. Hilliard / C. Louth (eds.), From the Enlightenment to Modernism. Three Centuries of German Literature. Essays for Ritchie Robertson , Cambridge, FST – Festschrift, 2021, pp. 7-22.
Macor, Laura Anna, “Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding, and the Bestimmung desMenschen: Philosophy as a Way of Life?” , in J. L. High / R. Stewart / E. Chen (eds.), Heinrich von Kleist. Literary and Philosophical Paradigms , Rochester, NY, Camden House, 2022, pp. 209-232.
Macor, Laura Anna, “The Place of the Human Being in the World: Johann Joachim Spalding, Religion, and Philosophy as a Way of Life” , in A. Pollok / C. D. Fugate (eds.), The Human Vocation in German Philosophy. Critical Essays and 18th Century Sources , London / New York, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 107-123.
Mueller, Laura, “Education, Philosophy, and Morality: Virtue Philosophy in Kant” , in E. Kramer / P. Bursztyka / R. Auxier/ M. Rychter (eds.), Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life: Contemporary Reflections and Applications , Leiden, Brill Press, 2022, pp. 242-274.
Nehamas, Alexander, “For Whom the Sun Shines: A Reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra” Klassiker Auslegen: Nietzsches Also Sprach Zarathustra, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2000, pp. 166-190.
Telo, Hélder, “The Care of Others in Alcibiades I ” , in M. J. de Carvalho / S. Oliveira (eds.), Rediscovering the AlcibiadesMajor , Coimbra, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, 2019, pp. 217-240.
Telo, Hélder, “The Care of Others in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations ” , in M. S. de Carvalho / J. Braga (eds.), Philosophy of Care – New Approaches to Vulnerability, Otherness and Therapy , Dordrecht, Springer, 2021, pp. 167-180.
Testa, Federico, “Is an Art of Living Possible Today? Foucault and Canguilhem on the Norms of Life” , in H.-J. Lüsebrink / J.-M. Narbonne / H. Schlange-Schöningen (eds.), Foucault. Repenser les rapports entre les Grecs et les Modernes , Paris / Montréal, VRIN & Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020, pp. 264-304.
Sharpe, Matthew, “Situating Hadot Today” , in M. Sharpe / F. Testa (eds.), The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, London/ New York, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 1-29.
Ure, Michael, “Foucault’s Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life” , in M. Faustino / G. Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault , London, Bloomsbury, 2020.
Translations
Hadot, Pierre, Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision
Hadot, Pierre, Philosophy as a Way of Life. Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
Hadot, Pierre, The Inner Citadel. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Hadot, Pierre, What is Ancient Philosophy?
Hadot, Pierre, The Veil of Isis. An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
Hadot, Pierre, The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot. Philosophy as Practice ,
Reviews
Kramer, Eli / Sharpe, Matthew, “Hadotian Considerations on Buddhist Spiritual Practices”, review of David Fiordalis (ed.), Buddhist Spiritual Practices: Thinking with Pierre Hadot on Buddhism, Philosophy, and the Path , in Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture , Vol. 3, No. 4 (10), 2019, pp. 157-169.
Mueller, Laura, “The Hope for a Better Community: The Luring Image of Philosophical Community”, review of Eli Kramer, Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One: Principles to Guide Philosophical Community , in Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2022, pp. 187-198.
Sellars, John, review of John M. Cooper, Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus , in Mind , Vol. 123, No. 492, pp. 1177-1180.
Dissertations
Lamberti, Pablo M., Befriending the Ears. The Transformative Power of Listening
Odyniec, Pawel, Engaging Advaita: Conceptualising Liberating Knowledge in the Face of Western Modernity
Telo, Hélder, Unexamined Life on Trial: A Crucial Problem in Plato’s Writings
Other publications
Kramer, Eli, “In Quest of Platonopolis: Excerpts from Research Visits to Philosophical Communities” , a discussion paper in Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture , Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2017, pp 107-115.
Kramer, Eli / Anderson, Douglas, “Philosophy as Culture: Getting Rid of the Professional ‘of’ in Philosophy as a Way of Life (Eli Kramer Interviews Douglas Anderson)” , Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture , Vol. 2, No. 3 (5) (November 2018).
Nehamas, Alexander, “Subject and Abject: The Vocation of Michel Foucault”, in The New Republic , 9 February 1993, pp. 27-36.
Nehamas, Alexander, “On the Philosophical Life. An Interview with Alexander Nehamas” , in The Harvard Review of Philosophy, VIII, 2000, pp. 24-38.
Nehamas, Alexander / Suvák, Vladislav, “Care of the Self: An Interview with Alexander Nehamas” , in Journal of Anient Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2015, pp. 141-145.
Nehamas, Alexander, “Is Living an Art that Can Be Taught?” , Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2018.
Sellars, John, “Philosophy as a Way of Life” , in The Philosophers’ Magazine, No.83, 2018, pp. 60-65.
Other media
Chase, Michael, “Michael Chase on Spiritual Exercises and Philosophy as a Way of Life” , interview with Stanislav Naranovich, Moscow Stoa , March 2023.
Mueller, Laura, “Modern Socratic Dialogue and Resilient Democracy: Creating the Clearing for an American Bildung ” , interview with Ryan Brooks, Humanities on the High Plains, April 2021, Episode 6.
