E-book: A Short Guide to the Inner Citadel

An accessible introduction to one of Pierre Hadot's classics on Stoicism

Dear Reader,

Here is the fifth installment of my ongoing series of free e-books based on essays that have appeared either here at Figs in Winter or at one of my previous blogs.

This new collection presents an in-depth yet accessible commentary on one of the classics of modern Stoicism: Pierre Hadot’s The Inner Citadel, first published in English in 1998.

Hadot’s book is ostensively about Marcus Aurelius, the emperor-philosopher, but in fact about half of it concerns the philosophy of Epictetus, the Stoic teacher that so greatly influenced Marcus.

Enjoy, and remember, Philosophia longa, vita brevis!

~Massimo Pigliucci