Mahendra Chitrarasu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahendra Chitrarasu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahendra |
| FAMILY NAME | Chitrarasu |
| SIGNATURE | CHITRARASU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work
Although scholars have long recognized that classical Stoicism affected Walt Whitman's work, a full account of the extent of this debt has yet to be produced. Although he drew inspiration from many sources, we argue that Whitman's "spinal ideas"—the ontological, moral, metaphysical and political threads of order in his thinking—are most consistently Stoic in origin. We do so by examining Whitman's poetry, prose, correspondence, manuscripts, noteb…
Were the Stoics Apolitical
This article challenges the common representation of the Stoics as apolitical – that is, interested in neither the philosophical nor the practical aspects of political life. Instead, they are said to have turned away from politics and the state towards internal psychic management and the achievement of the ideal mental states of apatheia and ataraxia. We contest this standard account of Stoicism in four ways. First, we present bibliographic evide…
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The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work
Although scholars have long recognized that classical Stoicism affected Walt Whitman's work, a full account of the extent of this debt has yet to be produced. Although he drew inspiration from many sources, we argue that Whitman's "spinal ideas"—the ontological, moral, metaphysical and political threads of order in his thinking—are most consistently Stoic in origin. We do so by examining Whitman's poetry, prose, correspondence, manuscripts, noteb…
Were the Stoics Apolitical
This article challenges the common representation of the Stoics as apolitical – that is, interested in neither the philosophical nor the practical aspects of political life. Instead, they are said to have turned away from politics and the state towards internal psychic management and the achievement of the ideal mental states of apatheia and ataraxia. We contest this standard account of Stoicism in four ways. First, we present bibliographic evide…
Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Stoicism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · CONTEST (1 work) · French Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Ideal (ethics (1 work)