Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Rachana Kamtekar

A Companion to Socrates

Herausgeber: Ahbel-Rappe, Sara; Kamtekar, Rachana

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, this Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy.

Discusses the life of Socrates and key philosophical doctrines associated with him
Covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to contemporary European philosophy
Examines Socrates' place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe
Addresses interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art
Helps readers to understand the meaning and significance of Socrates across the ages

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 966g
• ISBN-13: 9781405192606
• ISBN-10: 1405192607
• Artikelnr.: 25649798

Autorenporträt

Sara Ahbel-Rappe is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reading Neoplatonism (2000) and a translation of Damascius' Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (forthcoming). Rachana Kamtekar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: Socrates in
Antiquity. Section I: Biography and Sources. 1. The Trial and Death of
Socrates. (Debra Nails). 2. Socrates and Euripides. (Christian Wildberg).
3. Socrates Among the Sophists. (Paul Woodruff). 4. Socrates the
Freethinker. (Richard Janko). 5. How does Socrates' Divine Sign Communicate
with Him? (A. A. Long). 6. Socrates, Antisthenes, and the Cynics. (Susan
Prince). 7. Xenophon's Socrates. (Louis-André Dorion). 8. Picturing
Socrates. (Ken Lapatin). Section II: Plato. 9. Socrates in Plato's
Dialogues.(Christopher Rowe). 10. No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of
Socratic Intellectualism. (Heda Segvic). 11. Socratic Love. (George
Rudebusch). 12. Socrates and Religious Experience. (John Bussanich). 13.
The Politics of Plato's Socrates. (Rachana Kamtekar). 14. The Examined
Life. (Richard Kraut). 15. Socrates: Preacher or Seeker? (Rosalyn Weiss).
16. Socratic Method and Socratic Truth. (Harold Tarrant). Section III:
Hellenistic Philosophy. 17. Socrates in the Stoa. (Eric Brown). 18.
Socrates and Epictetus. (Tad Brennan). 19. Socrates and Skepticism.
(Richard Bett). Part II: Socrates After Antiquity. Section IV: From the
Medieval Period to Modernity. 20. Socrates in Arabic Philosophy. (Ilai
Alon). 21. Socrates in the Italian Renaissance. (James Hankins). 22. The
Private Life of Socrates in Early Modern France. (Daniel R. McLean). 23.
Socrates in Hegel and Others. (Nicholas White). Section V: The Modern
Period. 25. Kierkegaard's Socratic Point of View. (Paul Meunch). 26.
Nietzsche and "The Problem of Socrates". (James I. Porter). 27. The
Socratic Hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer. (Francisco J. Gonzalez).
28. The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis. (Jonathan Lear). 29. Lacan and
Socrates. (Mark Buchan). 30. From Grade School to Law School: Socrates'
Legacy in Education. (Avi Mintz). 31. Socrates' Definitional Inquiries and
the History of Philosophy. (Hayden W. Ausland). IndexThis Companion
explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western
philosophy and provides an in-depth discussion of the various approaches to
his philosophy.. Written by an outstanding international team of scholars,
the volume covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient
world to the present day. The contributors review Socrates' life and the
key philosophical doctrines associated with him, and examine Socrates'
place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the
Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe.
They consider interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche,
Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art.. This
distinctive Companion will help readers to understand the meaning and
significance of Socrates across the ages.

Rezensionen

"Everyone interested in Socrates and his legacy will find something valuable in this book..." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"A remarkably rich and imaginative collection. Socrates was a philosopher who became a cultural icon; this book, with its massive historical range and its great variety of scholarly approach, does unique justice to his complexity."
G.R.F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley

"This is a stimulating collection that succeeds admirably in conveying the enormous range of responses that the ever puzzling Socrates has inspired through the ages, and continues to inspire. The essays on Plato's Socrates are fresh and vigorous, and the attention paid to later perspectives (from antiquity to the present, and especially recent centuries) helps make this volume a distinctive and unusually illuminating addition to Socratic studies. It should be a welcome companion to a figure who attracted devoted companions in his lifetime, and legions more ever since." Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin

"Technical issues are treated thoroughly and comprehensibly and the state of knowledge on Socrates is comprehensively presented both for today and its historical contexts. Its subject matter will be of interest to non-specialists with a penchant for philosophy, or for the history of thoght, since there is as much of interest here about the influence of Socrates on later periods as there is on the thought of the philosopher himself." Reference Reviews