Pierre Hadot was Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France. His books include Philosophy as a Way of Life (1995) and Plotinus (1998).Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He has written books on Albert Camus, Slavoj Zizek, critical theory and contemporary politics. He is presently working on a history of philosophy as a way of life in the West (Bloomsbury, 2019, with M. Ure).Federico Testa is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. His current research focuses on Michel Foucault's politics of life, French contemporary philosophy and the revival of Hellenistic tradition within Modern and Contemporary philosophy.

• Part 1: Key Parameters1. ‘My Books and My Research’2. ‘Ancient Philosophers’3. ‘Ancient Philosophy, an Ethics or a Practice?’4. ‘The Oral Teaching of Plato’Part 2: Aspects5. ‘Conversion’ 6. ‘The Division of the Parts of Philosophy in Antiquity’7. ‘Philosophy, Dialectic, and Rhetoric in Ancient Philosophy’ Part 3: The Ancients and Nature8. ‘The Ancients and Nature’9. ‘The Genius of Place in Ancient Greece’Part 4: Figures10. ‘The Figure of the Sage in the Greek and Roman Antiquity’11. ‘Physics as a Spiritual Exercise, or Pessimism and Optimism in Marcus Aurelius’12. ‘On an Interrupted Dialogue with Michel Foucault: Convergences and Divergences’Part 5: Ends13. ‘The End of Paganism’14. ‘Models of Happiness Proposed by the Ancient Philosophers’

[A] great pleasure to read, inspirational in the immense historical reach and interpretative ambition evidenced by every essay, quite clear in its conceptual distinctions and articulations, and provocative.