{"id":1252,"date":"2010-04-25T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/25\/isis-takes-hadot\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T03:28:40","slug":"isis-takes-hadot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/25\/isis-takes-hadot\/","title":{"rendered":"Isis takes Hadot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pierre Hadot died yesterday. An important influence on the later Foucault, a classicist whose readings of ancient Greco-Roman philosophers made them seem relevant once again, and an astute defender of the Orphic<\/a> (as opposed to the Promethean) approach to Nature, Hadot’s influence was felt by many for whom philosophy is more than just a conceptual exercise. Fabio at hyper tiling has written a nice eulogy<\/a>. I don’t see any obits yet in the Anglophone Google News, but this New York Times review<\/a> of Philosophy as a Way of Life<\/em> and this review<\/a> of The Veil of Isis<\/em> provide reasonable entry points to his thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pierre Hadot died yesterday. An important influence on the later Foucault, a classicist whose readings of ancient Greco-Roman philosophers made them seem relevant once again, and an astute defender of the Orphic (as opposed to the Promethean) approach to Nature, Hadot’s influence was felt by many for whom philosophy is more than just a conceptual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977],"tags":[16895,4416,16824],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy","tag-hadot","tag-paganism","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-kc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1234,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/08\/philosophy-of-the-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":1252,"position":0},"title":"philosophy of the moment","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"April 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Carrera's Philosophy is Not a Luxury has been posting some pithy articulations of the process-relational philosophies of James, Dewey, Peirce, and others in the American pragmatist tradition. 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