The Politics of Socratic Humor (eBook)

John Lombardini (Autor)

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2018
312 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96491-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Was Socrates an ironist? Did he mock his interlocutors and, in doing so, show disdain for both them and the institutions of Athenian democracy? These questions were debated with great seriousness by generations of ancient Greek writers and helped to define a primary strand of the western tradition of political thought. By reconstructing these debates,The Politics of Socratic Humorcompares the very different interpretations of Socrates developed by his followersincluding such diverse thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Aristophanes, and the Hellenistic philosophersto explore the deep ethical and political dimensions of Socratic humor and its implications for civic identity, democratic speech, and political cooperation. Irony has long been seen as one of Socrates' most characteristic features, but as Lombardini shows, irony is only one part of a much larger toolkit of Socratic humor, the broader intellectual context of which must be better understood if we are to appropriate Socratic thought for our own modern ends.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Aristophanes and Socratic Mockery
2. Plato and Socratic Eironeia
3. Xenophon, Socratic Mockery, and Socratic Irony
4. Aristotle, Eutrapelia, and Socratic Eironeia
5. Socratic Humor in the Hellenistic Period

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Ancient Greece • ancient thinkers • Ancient World • Aristophanes • Aristotle • Athens • Classical Texts • classics • Debate • Democracy • great minds • Great Thinkers • greek philosophers • Greek Philosophy • greek writers • hellenist • History • Humor • Irony • modern world • Morality • Philosophers • Philosophy • Plato • Political • Politics • Socrates • socratic humor • Values • Xenophon
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96491-8 / 0520964918
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96491-4 / 9780520964914