Philosophy as a way of life survived as a shadow tradition beside academic philosophy

Evidence

As the centuries went by, philosophy increasingly became a profession conducted in academies or universities, by scholars who sometimes prided themselves on their discipline’s exquisite uselessness. Yet the tradition of philosophy as a way of life continued in a sort of shadow-line alongside this, often conducted by mavericks who had slipped through the gaps in traditional universities. Two such misfits in the nineteenth century had a particularly strong influence on the later existentialists: Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 56

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the distinction between philosophy as vita contemplativa versus as lived practice, and to Pierre Hadot’s thesis about philosophy as a way of life. — connects to: Early phenomenologists experienced the philosophy as a total life-orienting calling — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 125; Philosophy as a way of life survived among non-academic mavericks like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 56