2024-03Thematic Section
Philosophy as a Way of Life, the System, and the Advent of the Research University: Contributions Toward an Unwritten Chapter of the History of PWL

31/10/2024  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2024.0015

Abstract: This paper forms as it were a draft for an as-yet-unwritten, decisive chapter on the history of philosophy as a way of life (PWL). It closely examines the texts by Schleiermacher, Fichte, Humboldt, and Schelling on the foundation of the modern research university, and the place of philosophy within it, written in the years surrounding the formation…

Jan Molina

2024-01Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Arendt, Heidegger, Eichmann, and Thinking after the Black Notebooks

30/04/2024  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2024.0006

Preview: /Review: Emmanuel Faye, Arendt et Heidegger: Extermination nazie et destruction de la pensée, (Albin Michel, 2016), 560 pages./ The appearance of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (1932-38) in 2014 has posed profound questions to philosophers and political theorists. For a long time, in ways that the Black Notebooks have definitively undermined, Heidegger’s National Socialism was widely considered as limited…

Jan Molina

2021-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
“Bringin’ Sexy Back” (and With it, Women): Shusterman Beyond Foucault on the Greeks

30/04/2022  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0046

Preview: /Commentary: Richard Shusterman, Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 436 pages./ Like other contributors, I would like to begin by expressing my respect and admiration for the scale and scope of Richard Shusterman’s achievement in Ars Erotica. The Preface acknowledges “the vast amount of material”…

Jan Molina

2021-02Editorial
Pressing Questions for the Philosophical Life in a Time of Crisis

30/10/2021  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0013

Preview: 2020, the year the coronavirus pandemic spread globally, marked the twenty-fifth year since the publication of Pierre Hadot’s work Philosophy as a Way of Life (translated by co-author Michael Chase). In that time, what began as the research specialization of just a few scholars has become a growing area of philosophical and metaphilosophical inquiry, bringing together researchers…

Jan Molina

2021-01Thematic Section
A Good Person for a Crisis? On the Wisdom of the Stoic Sage (in Himself & for Us)

30/06/2021  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0003

Abstract: Is the Stoic sage a possible or desirable ideal for contemporary men and women, as we enter into difficult times?  Is he, as Seneca presents him, the very best person for a crisis?  In order to examine these questions, Part 1 begins from what Irene Liu calls the “standard” modern conceptions of the sage as either a kind of…

Jan Molina

2019-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Hadotian Considerations on Buddhist Spiritual Practices

31/12/2019  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0048

Preview: /Review: David Fiordalis ed., Buddhist Spiritual Practices: Thinking with Pierre Hadot on Buddhism, Philosophy, and the Path (Berkeley, CA: Mangalam Press, 2018), 333 pages./ David Fiordalis’ collection Buddhist Spiritual Practices: Thinking with Pierre Hadot on Buddhism, Philosophy and the Path (hereafter BSP) represents an invaluable contribution in what promises to be a fruitful emerging research…

Jan Molina

2018-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Into the Heart of Darkness Or: Alt-Stoicism? Actually, No…

28/12/2018  / 
DOI: 10.26319/6921

Preview: In several conversations over the last months, people have independently raised a troubling sign of the times. Since the mid-2010s, it seems, “Alt-Right” bloggers have begun to populate Facebook and other online venues of the “Modern Stoicism” movement, claiming that the ancient philosophy vindicates their misogynistic and nativist views, complete with sometimes-erroneous…

Jan Molina