Stoicism and the Scottish Enlightenment

When considering the imprint of Stoicism on contemporary French philosophy, there is a great temptation to focus on two quite recent and very famous cases, namely Deleuze and Foucault, and to enter into a close discussion with the already substantial literature devoted to the few texts where they dealt with Stoicism. 1 This chapter adopts a quite different approach: many other philosophers will be studied in the following pages, both in order to broaden the perspective on Stoicism in French thought and to understand better Deleuze’s and Foucault’s respective contributions by putting them into the relevant intellectual contexts.

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