Ilsetraut Hadot (born 20 December 1928)[1] in Berlin, is a philosopher and historian of philosophy who specialised in Stoicism, Neoplatonism and more generally in Ancient Philosophy.

Ilsetraut Hadot
Born20 December 1928
NationalityFrench, German
EducationFree University of Berlin
Sorbonne University
SpousePierre Hadot
AwardsPrix François-Millepierres (2015)
Main interests
Philosophy, history of philosophy

Biography edit

In 1978, Hadot won the Victor Cousin prize of the Académie française for her work The problem of Alexandrian Neoplatonism. Hierocles and Simplicius. In 2015, she received the François-Millepierres prize by the Académie for her work Seneca. Spiritual Direction and Practice of Philosophy.[2]

In 1966, she graduated the Dr. Phil. at the Free University of Berlin about Seneca and Spiritual Direction in Antiquity.[3] She defended her State thesis in 1977, a Doctor of Arts at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV).[4]

She met Pierre Hadot during a symposium in Cologne in 1962 and they married in Berlin in 1966.[5] He is also a specialist of Ancient Philosophy. Together, they wrote Learn to Philosophize in Antiquity, in 2004.[6]

Research works edit

Ilsetraut Hadot is a classical philologist and a specialist about Ancient Philosophy. She has written about Seneca, the history of education in Antiquity[7] and Neoplatonism. She has edited, commentated and translated the commentary of Simplicius, a Neoplatonist philosopher, about the Enchiridion of Epictetus.

Works edit

  • Seneca und die Griechisch-Römische Tradition der Seelenleitung, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969, 232p.
  • (With Pierre Hadot) Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité : L'enseignement du « Manuel d'Épictète » et son commentaire néoplatonicien, ("Learn to Philosophize in Antiquity: the Lesson from Enchiridion of Epictetus and its Neoplatonician Commentary") Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2004, 216 p. ISBN 9782253109358.
  • Arts libéraux et philosophie dans la pensée antique : Contribution à l'histoire de l'éducation et de la culture dans l'Antiquité ("Liberal Arts and Philosophy in Ancient thought: Contribution at the history of education and culture in Antiquity"), Paris, Vrin, 2006, 576 p. ISBN 9782711618231.
  • Le Néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines : Un bilan critique (The Neoplatonician Simplicius in light of contemporary researches: a critical appraisal) (with two contributions of Philippe Vallat), Saint Augustin, Academia Verlag, 2014, 309 p. ISBN 9783896656391.
  • Le Problème du néoplatonisme alexandrin : Hiéroclès et Simplicius (The Problem of alexandrian neoplatonism : Hierocles and Simplicius), Paris, Études augustiniennes, 1978, 243 p. ISBN 9782851210234.
  • Sénèque. Direction spirituelle et pratique de la philosophie (Seneca. Spiritual Direction and practice of philosophy), Paris, Vrin, 2014, 456 p. ISBN 9782711625697
  • Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles, Philadelphia, American philosophical society, 2004, 152 p. ISBN 0-87169-941-9
  • Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2015, 188 p. ISBN 9789004280076

Translations, prefaces edit

  • Seneca, Consolations, Paris, Payot & Rivages, 1992, 140 p. ISBN 9782869305168, translated by Colette Lazam, preface by Ilsetraut Hadot.
  • Simplicius, Commentaire sur les Catégories ("Commentary about the Categories"), Leyde, Brill, 1989, Philosophia Antiqua, 240 p. ISBN 9789004090156, translated under the direction of Ilsetraut Hadot.
  • Simplicius, Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Introduction & édition critique du texte grec par Ilsetraut Hadot ("Commentary about the Enchiridion of Epictetus. Introduction & critical edition of the Greek text by Ilsetraut Hadot"), Leyden, New-York, Cologne, Brill, 1996, 479p.
  • Simplicius, Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Chapitres I-XXIX ("Commentary about the Enchiridion of Epictetus. Chapters I-XXIX"), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2001, 314 p. ISBN 9782251004938[8]

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ "ISNI 0000000108664774 Hadot, Ilsetraut (1928-)". www.isni.org. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  2. ^ "Ilsetraut Hadot". www.academie-francaise.fr (in French). Retrieved 17 April 2017..
  3. ^ Roger-Pol Droit (9 April 2015). "Traversée. Toujours du neuf chez les Anciens". Le Monde des Livres, Les Cahiers du CERIC (in French). Archived from the original on 8 May 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2017..
  4. ^ Hadot, Ilsetraut (1982). "Conférence de Mme Ilsetraut Hadot". Annuaires de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (in French). 95 (91). École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses: 351–354. Retrieved 2017-09-11..
  5. ^ La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (in French). Paris: Le Livre de Poche. 2003 [2001]. pp. 66 (of 284). ISBN 978-2-2539-43488. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  6. ^ Jean-Baptiste Marongiu (12 November 2004). "Ilsetraut et Pierre Hadot. Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité". next.liberation.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017..
  7. ^ Marie-Thérèse Isaac (2007). "Ilsetraut Hadot, Arts libéraux et philosophie dans la pensée antique. Contribution à l'histoire de l'éducation et de la culture dans l'Antiquité [compte rendu]" (in French). 76 (1). L'Antiquité classique: 433–434. Retrieved 17 April 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help).
  8. ^ Stevens, Annick (2003). "Ilsetraut HADOT (Éd.), Simplicius. Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Tome I. Chapitres I-XXIX" (in French). 72 (1). L'antiquité classique. Retrieved 2017-09-11. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)