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'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life': The Letters of Great Thinkers

'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life': The Letters of Great Thinkers

Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Year 2020
Pages 256
Version paperback
Language English
ISBN 9781350089198
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In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out to a friend, sharing, testing, confirming discoveries about the complexity of life, how to rise above its hardships and enjoy its pleasures. We see writers embrace the roots of philosophical thought afresh, by grappling with real, lived experience, giving us unique insight into their ideas and worldviews that their more polished, public work often does not provide. We see artists sound the foundations of their artistic and moral integrity.Ranging from Seneca and Marcus Aurelius to Flora Tristan and Walter Benjamin, to Elizabeth of Bohemia and Giacomo Leopardi, to Mahatma Gandhi and Maurice Béjart, we see how the philosophical letter as a form of thinking, and thinking freely, spans across the ages and often forms some of the most interesting and lively of philosophical writings.Each letter is given a contextualising preface by an expert that brings out the reason this particular letter is a philosophical letter for life. As such, Dear Friend, you must change your life provides a unique introduction to an array of thinkers throughout history as well as an argument for philosophy as conversation, a conversation which has been ongoing for centuries.

'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life': The Letters of Great Thinkers

Table of contents

AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: Be Present!, Epicurus to Menoeceus, by Ada BronowskiChapter 2: The Price of Time, Seneca to Lucilius, by Christelle VeillardChapter 3: The Self-Punishing Student of a Doting Teacher, Marcus Aurelius to Fronto, by Ada Bronowski and Gweltaz Guyormac'hChapter 4: A Philosophy for the Poor from a Cynical God, Kronos to the Poor by Lucian of Samosata, by Alberto CamerottoChapter 5: Real Philosophy for Real People, René Descartes to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Marie-Frédérique PellegrinChapter 6: Good Intentions and the Resistance of Reality, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia's reply to René Descartes, by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Marie-Frédérique PellegrinChapter 7: The Green Carpet in Your Mind is Not In Your Mind, Anne Conway to Henry More, by Sarah HuttonChapter 8: A Philosopher-Empress in a Revolutionary World, Catherine the Great to the Prince de Ligne, by Kelsey Rubin-DetlevChapter 9: From Exile with Love, Germaine de Stael to Madame de Tessé, by Catriona SethChapter 10: Erotic Affinities, Winckelmann to Usteri, by Katherine HarloeChapter 11: Rational Empiricism?, Schiller to Goethe by Dalia NassarChapter 12: 'What then is Happiness, my dear friend?', Leopardi to Jacopssen, by Luigi CapitanoChapter 13: A Philosophy of Love, Flora Tristan to Charles Fillieu, by Máire Fedelma CrossChapter 14: Just the Magnificence of Reality, Thoreau to Blake, by Rick Anthony FurtakChapter 15: De Profundis: A Philosophical Letter, Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, by Stefano EvangelistaChapter 16: A Correspondence Theory of Truth, Mahatma Gandhi to Maganlal Gandhi, by Nicholas J. OwenChapter 17: Dispelling the Tower of Fear, Rainer Maria Rilke to Lotte Hepner, by Charlie LouthChapter 18: The Epic Side of Truth, Walter Benjamin to Gershom Scholem, by Daniela HelbigChapter 19: 'A Shit on a Pedestal', Francois Truffaut to Jean-Luc Goddard, by Antoine de BaecqueChapter 20: A Philosophy of Dance, Maurice Béjart to Nahuelt, by Ada Bronowskibibliographyindex

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