The Way of the Platonic Socrates

S. Montgomery Ewegen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

174 Seiten

2020
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04756-4 (ISBN)

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Who is Socrates? While most readers know him as the central figure in Plato's work, he is hard to characterize. In this book, S. Montgomery Ewegen opens this long-standing and difficult question once again. Reading Socrates against a number of Platonic texts, Ewegen sets out to understand the way of Socrates. Taking on the nuances and contours of the Socrates that emerges from the dramatic and philosophical contexts of Plato's works, Ewegen considers questions of withdrawal, retreat, powerlessness, poverty, concealment, and release and how they construct a new view of Socrates. For Ewegen, Socrates is a powerful but strange and uncanny figure. Ewegen's withdrawn Socrates forever evades rigid interpretation and must instead remain a deep and insoluble question.

S. Montgomery Ewegen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College. He is author of Plato's Cratylus: The Comedy of Language and translator (with Julia Goesser Assaiante) of Martin Heidegger's Heraclitus.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Wandering: Apology
1. Retreat: Phaedo / Timaeus
2. Power(lessness): Gorgias
3. Poverty: Symposium
4. Indebtedness: Statesman
5. Ignorance: Protagoras
6. Releasement: Republic
Epilogue: Plato
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Continental Thought
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-253-04756-0 / 0253047560
ISBN-13	978-0-253-04756-4 / 9780253047564
Zustand	Neuware