DYING FOR IDEAS: THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

Book ID/图书代码： 14B69553

English Summary/英文概要： What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A ""death for ideas"" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time. Dying for Ideas explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death. Silenced by brute force, they cannot argue anymore and have to turn philosophy into bodily performance. The phenomenology of this unique situation is as fascinating as it has been neglected. The book tells the story of the philosopher’s encounter with death as seen from several angles: the tradition of philosophy as an art of living; the body as the site of self-transcending; death as a classical philosophical topic; taming death and self-fashioning; finally, the philosophers’ scapegoating and their live performance of a martyr’s death, followed by apotheosis and disappearance into myth. While rooted in the history of philosophy, Dying for Ideas is an exercise in breaking disciplinary boundaries. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi’s ""fasting unto death"" and self-immolation; about Girard and Passolini, and still about self-fashioning and the art of the essay. Philosophical ideas are explored alongside with works of art and literature.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 苏格拉底、海帕夏、布鲁诺、莫尔和帕托卡有什么共同之处?首先，有一天他们都面临着最艰难的选择:忠于自己的想法，要么死去，要么放弃，继续活下去。第二，他们都选择了死亡。他们壮观的死亡不仅成为他们传记的重要组成部分，也与他们的作品密不可分。《为思想而死》本身就是一部哲学著作;苏格拉底可能从未写过一句话，但他的死是有史以来最伟大的哲学畅销书之一。《为思想而死》探讨了这样一种有限的情况:哲学家们发现，他们唯一能说服自己的方法就是自己垂死的身体和自己死亡的公众景象。在蛮力的压制下，他们无法再争辩，必须将哲学转化为身体的表演。这种独特情形的现象学既令人着迷，又被忽视了。这本书从几个角度讲述了哲学家与死亡相遇的故事:哲学作为一种生存艺术的传统;身体作为自我超越的场所;死亡是一个经典的哲学话题;驯服死亡和自我塑造;最后是哲学家们的替罪羊和殉道者的现场表演，然后是神化和神话化的消失。尽管根植于哲学史，《为思想而死》是一种打破学科界限的实践。这是一本关于苏格拉底和海德格尔的书，也是关于甘地的“绝食至死”和自焚的书;关于吉拉尔和帕索里尼，还有关于自我塑造和文章的艺术。哲学思想与艺术和文学作品一起被探索。（WYL)

Awards/获奖情况：一个有趣的哲学家与死亡冲突的“戏剧性叙事”，布拉塔丹对哲学家为思想而死的行为进行了详尽的考察，使人们认识到为思想而活的风险。——高等教育

An intriguing ’dramatic narrative’ of philosophers’ clash with death ... Bradatan’s rich examination of the philosopher’s act of dying for ideas brings into focus the riskiness of living for them as well. --Times Higher Education

About the Author/作者介绍： 科斯提卡·布拉达坦是美国德州理工大学荣誉学院的副教授。

Costica Bradatan is Associate Professor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA.

Format:插图

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：

原文第一章内容：暂无

手稿：暂无

大纲：暂无