Mor Segev

Gebundenes Buch

The Value of the World and of Oneself

Philosophical Optimism and Pessimism from Aristotle to Modernity

Beschreibung

A wide-ranging, razor sharp exploration of the debate between optimism and pessimism throughout the history of philosophy, author Mor Segev's The Value of the World and of Oneself considers the question of existence and recounts what our greatest thinkers--Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus--have made of the matter.

Autor

Mor Segev is American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture (AFGLC) Professor of Greek Culture, Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies, and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Aristotle on Religion (2017) and articles on Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza and Schopenhauer in venues such as Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Classical World, Classical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Polis and Rhizomata. Segev was a Junior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University and a Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780197634073
• ISBN-10: 0197634079
• Artikelnr.: 64143989