Hadot Among the Medievalists: Revisiting the Historiography on “Intellectual Felicity” in the Thirteenth Century
The reception of Hadot’s work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected. In this revisitation of the historiography on the notion of “intellectual felicity,” I thus hope to be able first to provi...
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| description | The reception of Hadot’s work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected. In this revisitation of the historiography on the notion of “intellectual felicity,” I thus hope to be able first to provide a corrective to the faulty understanding that some medievalists still seem to have of Hadot’s contribution to the study of philosophy as a way of life in the Middle Ages, and second, to show how ongoing debates in medievalist circles might point us toward the possible limitations with Hadot’s own understanding of philosophy as a way of life and its history in and beyond the Middle Ages. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c0c0e2d87b234c07982b277bed9f76492025-01-28T13:25:21ZengUniversity of WarsawEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture2544-302X2024-10-0183114110.14394/eidos.jpc.2024.0014Hadot Among the Medievalists: Revisiting the Historiography on “Intellectual Felicity” in the Thirteenth CenturyMatteo Johannes Stettler0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7287-6739Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, ItalyThe reception of Hadot’s work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected. In this revisitation of the historiography on the notion of “intellectual felicity,” I thus hope to be able first to provide a corrective to the faulty understanding that some medievalists still seem to have of Hadot’s contribution to the study of philosophy as a way of life in the Middle Ages, and second, to show how ongoing debates in medievalist circles might point us toward the possible limitations with Hadot’s own understanding of philosophy as a way of life and its history in and beyond the Middle Ages.https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/hadot-among-the-medievalists/hadotintellectual felicitymedieval philosophyaristotle |
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