PHILOSOPHER’S LOVE – FROM SOCRATES TO FOUCAULT

  • An unusual, fascinating and enlightening insight into the libidinous underground of philosophical high performance.  
  • Geier's previous works were sold to nine countries.
  • “[The work of] Manfred Geier combines definitional acuteness with stylistic elegance.”- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Love is a long-burning issue of philosophy. From antiquity to the present day, people have philosophised about love, which reveals itself in a variety of forms and norms. But what really happens when philosophers not only philosophise, but also love, from the initial games of seduction to the culmination of sexual lust?

With the aid of eleven biographical case studies, from Socrates and Augustine to Martin Heidegger and Michael Foucault, Manfred Geier, author of several biographies on philosophers, documents how without their erotic lust, the philosophers would not have become searchers of wisdom. 

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hardcover
  • Release: 21.07.2020
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-02543-4
  • 352 Pages
  • Author: Manfred Geier

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Manfred Geier was born in 1943 and taught linguistics and literature for many years at the Universities of Marburg and Hanover. He currently lives in Hamburg and works as a freelance writer. His publications include Kant’s World: A Biography (2009), T he Humboldt Brothers: A Dual Biography (2009), The Flash of Inspiration (2013),  Wittgenstein and Heidegger  and   The Last Philosophers (2017).  He also contributed several volumes to an encyclopaedia published by Rowohlt and has written monographs on Karl Popper, Martin Heidegger and the Vienna Circle.