Irvine, William B.: A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy.(Book review)

The Review of Metaphysics | September 1, 2009| | Copyright

IRVINE, William B. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. vii + 314 pp. Cloth, $19.95--In a largely autobiographical preface to this work, Irvine provides an account of how in his fifties he accidentally discovered for the first time in his academic career the Stoics. At no point in his college or university training had anyone lectured about or encouraged him to read the Stoics. His first encounter came as a result of reading Tom Wolfe's novel, A Man in Full, in which the fictional character Conrad Hensley, who is ...

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