Philosophers behaving badly

A cautionary note

Introduction

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the philosopher as victim

Arthur Schopenhauer : the rebarbative bodhisattva

Friedrich Nietzsche : a sickly Übermensch

Feature : Nietzsche and Nazism

Bertrand Russell : the mathematics of human behaviour

Ludwig Wittgenstein : anger and asceticism

Martin Heidegger : magician, predator, peasant and Nazi

Feature : The Héloïse complex

Jean-Paul Sartre : intellectual tyranny, charm and bad faith

Feature : Women philosophers behaving badly

Michel Foucault : madness, sex and punishment

Feature : Demetrius, philosopher king of Athens.