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Dying for Ideas
The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers
- Bloomsbury
- by Costica Bradatan
What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work.
ISBN 9781472529718 | EN | PB
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| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781472529718 |
| Author(s) | Costica Bradatan |
| Publication date | April 2017 |
| Edition | Paperback |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Pages | 272 |
| Language(s) | English ed. |
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What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ideas" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time.