Vol. 27 No. 2 (2016)

Published November 11, 2026

Special Volume: Self-Cultivation: Ancient and Modern

BETHANY PARSONS and ANDRE OKAWARA: Foreword
DANIEL CONWAY: Epicurus Avenged?
MATT SHARPE: What place discourse, what role rigorous argumentation? Against the standard image of Hadot’s conception of ancient philosophy as a way of life
LOUISE R. CHAPMAN: We Don’t Need No Noumena? Freedom Through Rational Self- Cultivation in Kant
HEDWIG GAASTERLAND: Anti-Stoic Lessons for the Concept of Amor Fati in Gay Science IV
JONATHAN HEAD: Schopenhauer and the Stoics
LISA HICKS: Cultivating What Self? Philosophy as Therapy in the Genealogy of Morals and Hellenistic Ethics
BURÇ KÖSTEM: ‘The City of Sages’ and the ‘Life of Virtue’: Foucault and the Politics of Self-Cultivation in the Spartan Ideal
IRENE DAL POZ: The Political Aim of Self-Cultivation in Foucault
FEDERICO TESTA: Towards a History of Philosophical Practices in Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot

Reviews

SHAUN STEVENSON: Matthew Sharpe’s Camus, Philosophe?

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Historical Archive

Pli Journal, University of Warwick

Special Volume. Self-Cultivation: Ancient and Modern

https://doi.org/10.31273/pl.n2.2016.2394

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