Description: "Addressing the need for a synoptic study of the diverse reception that Stoicism has received in German philosophy, this volume assesses how modern German philosophers have incorporated ancient resources in the context of their philosophy. Chapters in this volume are devoted to philosophical giants such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Peter Sloterdijk; amongst the Stoics, focus is on texts by Seneca and Epictetus, as well as others neglected by non-specialists. This book brings ancient texts into new dialogues with up-to-date scholarship, facilitating increased understanding, critical evaluation, and creative innovation within the continental response to Stoicism."--
Brief description: Kurt Lampe is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol, UK and the author of The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophersand Pleasure as a Way of Life (2015). He is also the co-editor of German Stoicisms (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).
Review Quotes:
"The role of Stoicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought, this volume shows, has not been adequately appreciated. This book's ten contributions both provide a broad framework for understanding the reception of Stoicism in Germany and offer detailed case studies, demonstrating the importance of Stoic thought to major philosophical thinkers of the past two centuries. German Stoicisms is a major contribution in itself, and opens exciting paths for further research." --Joshua Billings, Professor of Classics, Princeton University, USA
"An admirably ambitious project by an international cast of classicists, Germanists, and scholars of modern European philosophy, exploring the impact of Stoic and neoStoic ideas in the fields of ethics, anthropology, and cosmology on the German intellectual tradition of the last two centuries." --Eric S. Downing, Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor of German, English and Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA "German Stoicisms is an unexpected feast. Who would have guessed that the Stoics could provide so continuous a provocation to modern German philosophy from Lipsius to Sloterdijk, proving themselves not only good to think with and against, but downright indispensable? This is genuine spadework of a very high caliber." --James I. Porter, Irving Stone Professor in Literature and Professor of Rhetoric and Classics, University of California, Berkeley, USA