Philosophers behaving badly / Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodgers, Nigel.

Contributor:

Thompson, Mel, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers--Europe--Biography.

Philosophers.

Philosophy, European--History.

Philosophy, European.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Chester Speings : Peter Owen Publishers ; Chester Springs, Pa. : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An engaging and often hilarious survey of the far-from-fusty extra-curricular activities of some of philosophy's finest practitioners Philosophers Behaving Badly examines the lives of eight great philosophers—Rousseau, whose views on education and the social order seem curiously at odds with his own outrageous life; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, two giants of the 19th century whose words seem ever more relevant today; and five immensely influential philosophers of the 20th century, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, and Foucault.

Contents:

A cautionary note

Introduction

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the philosopher as victim

Arthur Schopenhauer : the rebarbative bodhisattva

Friedrich Nietzsche : a sickly Ubermensch

Feature : Nietzsche and Nazism

Bertrand Russell : the mathematics of human behaviour

Ludwig Wittgenstein : anger and asceticism

Martin Heidegger : magician, predator, peasant and Nazi

Feature : The Heloise complex

Jean-Paul Sartre : intellectual tyranny, charm and bad faith

Feature : Women philosophers behaving badly

Michel Foucault : madness, sex and punishment

Feature : Demetrius, philosopher king of Athens.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-232) and index.

ISBN:

0-7206-1368-X

0-7206-1370-1

OCLC:

655234271