Towards a Phenomenology Ofsagesse
Uncovering the Unique Philosophical Problematic of Pierre Hadot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Sharpe, Matt Sharpe (0000-0002-8165-5775, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus 221 Burwood Highway Burwood, VIC 3125 Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-138 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2018.1451475 |
| OpenAlex | W2799549709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper starts from the contention that Pierre Hadot's unusually divided reception reflects the different dimensions of Hadot's own scholarly profile. Hadot's largely favourable reception amongst historians of ideas responds to the philological dimension of his work, but misses the implicit normativity involved in his recovery of the sense of ancient philosophy as a way of life. Analytic critics have registered but contested this normativity in ways that arguably also misrepresent his work. This paper contends that both receptions of Hadot have missed what can be called Hadot's unique philosophical problematic: uncovering through the ancient sources a kind of phenomenology of how a person would perceive and evaluate the world who had, counter-factually, attained a wholly enlightened, wholly "sage" mode of living. This phenomenology of sagesse, which is predicated on a metaphysical agnosticism, proves closer to the last Foucault than Hadot sometimes suggested: albeit embodying an aesthetics of "the whole," over against Foucault's aesthetics of (human) existence
Aesthetics · Agnosticism · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Phenomenology (philosophy · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |