Contents

List of Figures

A Note on Translation

Acknowledgment

Abbreviations

Chapter 1

Introduction: Stoicism, Language, and Freedom

Kurt Lampe

Chapter 2

Sartre, Stoicism, and the Problem of Moral Responsibility (from 1939 to 1948)

Olivier D’Jeranian, trans. by O. D’Jeranian and Kurt Lampe

Chapter 3

Sartrean Ontology and the Stoic Theory of Incorporeals

Laurent Husson and Suzanne Husson, trans. by Kurt Lampe

Chapter 4

Deleuzian Exercises and the Inversion of Stoicism

Janae Sholtz

Chapter 5

How and Why Did Badiou Beat Deleuze with a Stoic Stick?

Thomas Bénatouïl

Chapter 6

Julia Kristeva, Stoicism, and the “True Life of Interpretations”

Kurt Lampe

Chapter 7

Indifference versus Affirmation: Michel Foucault on the Stoic Idea of Life as a Test

John Sellars

Chapter 8

Veridiction and Parrhesia: The Complex Case of Stoicism and Its Reading by M. Foucault

Valéry Laurand

Chapter 9

Stoicism: Political Resistance or Retreat? Foucault and Arendt

Michael Ure

Chapter 10

Stoicism, Ambiguity, and the Decision of Sense

Barbara Cassin, trans. by Steven Corcoran and Kurt Lampe, with an Introduction by Kurt Lampe

Chapter 11

Ontology and Language, between Chrysippus and Agamben

Nicoletta di Vita, trans. by Kurt Lampe

Chapter 12

Making Use of Agamben’s “Stoic Providence-Fate Apparatus”: A Reading of Seneca’s Consolation to Polybius

Clifford A. Robinson

Chapter 13

Pierre Hadot: Stoicism as a Way of Life

Matthew Sharpe

Contributors

Index