Gateway to the Stoics: Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, Epictetus's Enchiridion, and Selections from Seneca's Letters, Paperback/Marcus Aurelius

The one book you need to master stoic philosophy! This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes the famed original introduction by Russell Kirk, the full text of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius , the complete Enchiridion of Epictetus, and key selections from Seneca and Hierocles of Alexandria in one compact volume. Spencer Klavan , a scholar, writer, and podcaster, has a lifelong devotion to the great works and principles of the West. After studying Greek and Latin as an undergraduate at Yale, he spent five years at Oxford earning his doctorate in ancient Greek literature. Now an editor at the Claremont Institute, he has written for many outlets, including The Atlantic , the Los Angeles Times , City Journal , Newsweek , the Claremont Review of Books , The Federalist, The American Mind, and The Daily Wire. He lives near Nashville, Tennessee. Russell Kirk (1918-1994), historian of ideas, critic, essayist, editor and novelist, was the author of thirty-two books. Among them are The Conservative Mind, The Roots of American Order, America's British Culture, The Politic of Prudence, Eliot and His Age, Enemies of the Permanent Things, Edmund Burke, Redeeming the Time, John Randolph of Roanoke, and six works of fiction. His memoirs, The Sword of Imagination, were published posthumously. He received twelve honorary doctorates from American universities and many awards, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, founded in 1995 and based in Mecosta, Michigan, continues his work to defend "the permanent things" today.

Dimensiuni

208 x 138

Autor

Marcus Aurelius

Copertă

Paperback

An

2023

Pagini

208

Limbă

English

Editură

Gateway Editions

Greutate

259 g