A Companion to Socrates (eBook)

Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Rachana Kamtekar (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
560 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-5458-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors x

Preface xiv

Acknowledgments xxiv

PART ONE: SOCRATES IN ANTIQUITY

Section I: Biography and Sources

1 The Trial and Death of Socrates 5

Debra Nails

2 Socrates and Euripides 21

Christian Wildberg

3 Socrates Among the Sophists 36

Paul Woodruff

4 Socrates the Freethinker 48

Richard Janko

5 How Does Socrates' Divine Sign Communicate with Him?
63

A. A. Long

6 Socrates, Antisthenes, and the Cynics 75

Susan Prince

7 Xenophon's Socrates 93

Louis-André Dorion

8 Picturing Socrates 110

Kenneth Lapatin

Section II: Plato

9 Socrates in Plato's Dialogues 159

Christopher Rowe

10 No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic
Intellectualism 171

Heda Segvic

11 Socratic Love 186

George Rudebusch

12 Socrates and Religious Experience 200

John Bussanich

13 The Politics of Plato's Socrates 214

Rachana Kamtekar

14 The Examined Life 228

Richard Kraut

15 Socrates: Seeker or Preacher? 243

Roslyn Weiss

16 Socratic Method and Socratic Truth 254

Harold Tarrant

Section III: Hellenistic Philosophy

17 Socrates in the Stoa 275

Eric Brown

18 Socrates and Epictetus 285

Tad Brennan

19 Socrates and Skepticism 299

Richard Bett

PART TWO: SOCRATES AFTER ANTIQUITY

Section IV: From the Medieval Period to Modernity

20 Socrates in Arabic Philosophy 317

Ilai Alon

21 Socrates in the Italian Renaissance 337

James Hankins

22 The Private Life of Socrates in Early Modern France 353

Daniel R. McLean

23 Socrates in Hegel and Others 368

Nicholas White

Section V: The Modern Period

24 Kierkegaard's Socratic Point of View 389

Paul Muench

25 Nietzsche and "The Problem of Socrates" 406

James I. Porter

26 The Socratic Hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer 426

Francisco J. Gonzalez

27 The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis 442

Jonathan Lear

28 Lacan and Socrates 463

Mark Buchan

29 From Grade School to Law School: Socrates' Legacy in
Education 476

Avi Mintz

30 Socrates' Definitional Inquiries and the History of
Philosophy 493

Hayden W. Ausland

Index 511

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

"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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Ancient & Classical History • Ancient Philosophy • Antike u. mittelalterliche Philosophie • Geschichte • Geschichte des Altertums u. der klassischen Antike • History • Philosophie • Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-5458-6 / 1405154586
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5458-1 / 9781405154581