In 1978, Hadot won the Victor Cousin prize of the Académie française for her work The problem of Alexandrian Neoplatonism.Hierocles and Simplicius. In 2015, she received the François-Millepierres prize by the Académie for her work Seneca. Spiritual Direction and Practice of Philosophy. In 1966, she graduated the Dr. Phil. at the Free University of Berlin about Seneca and Spiritual Direction in Antiquity. She defended her State thesis in 1977, a Doctor of Arts at Paris-Sorbonne University. She met Pierre Hadot during a symposium in Cologne in 1962 and they get married at Berlin in 1966. He is also a specialist of Ancient Philosophy. Together, they wrote Learn to Philosophize in Antiquity, in 2004.
Research works
Ilsetraut Hadot is a classical philologist and a specialist about Ancient Philosophy. She has written about Seneca, the history of education in Antiquity and Neoplatonism. She has edited, commentated and translated the commentary of Simplicius, a Neoplatonist philosopher, about the Enchiridion of Epictetus.
Works
Seneca und die Griechisch-Römische Tradition der Seelenleitung, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969, 232p.
Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité : L'enseignement du « Manuel d'Épictète » et son commentaire néoplatonicien, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2004, 216 p..
Arts libéraux et philosophie dans la pensée antique : Contribution à l'histoire de l'éducation et de la culture dans l'Antiquité , Paris, Vrin, 2006, 576 p..
Le Néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines : Un bilan critique , Saint Augustin, Academia Verlag, 2014, 309 p..
Le Problème du néoplatonisme alexandrin : Hiéroclès et Simplicius , Paris, Études augustiniennes, 1978, 243 p..
Sénèque. Direction spirituelle et pratique de la philosophie , Paris, Vrin, 2014, 456 p.
Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles, Philadelphia, American philosophical society, 2004, 152 p.
Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2015, 188 p.
Seneca, Consolations, Paris, Payot & Rivages, 1992, 140 p., translated by Colette Lazam, preface by Ilsetraut Hadot.
Simplicius, Commentaire sur les Catégories , Leyde, Brill, 1989, Philosophia Antiqua, 240 p., translated under the direction of Ilsetraut Hadot.
Simplicius, Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Introduction & édition critique du texte grec par Ilsetraut Hadot , Leyden, New-York, Cologne, Brill, 1996, 479p.
Simplicius, Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Chapitres I-XXIX , Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2001, 314 p.
