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What would Socrates do? : self-examination, civic engagement, and the politics of philosophy /
"Socrates continues to be an extremely influential force to this day; his work is featured prominently in the work of contemporary thinkers ranging from Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, to Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière. Intervening in this discussion, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Gadfly explanation; 1 Introduction: Socrates in democratic times; Reconstructing Socrates; Before irony: Socrates'atopia
- Translating Socrates; 2Beyond Socratic citizenship: Transforming accountability; The torpedo fish; An ignorant schoolmaster38; Freeing the slaves; Anytus'Athens; Aporia and atopia; 3 Socrates in drag: Love beyond the polis; The erotic practices of Athenian democracy5; Subverting the erotic practices of Athenian democracy; Alcibiades and the crisis of subversion.
- Socrates and his girlfriends: Xenophon'sMemorabiliaEmbodying philosophy; 4 Fearless speech in democracy: Radicalizing frank speaking; Parrhesiasticdialogue; Decenteringparrhesia
- The risks of fearless speech; Socrates in Aristophanes'Clouds
- Fearless speech in democracy; 5 Midwifing Athens: Socratic associations; The midwife; Gentling the Athenians; Socrates'sunousiai
- Midwifing democracy; Philosophy in the world; 6 Socrates'atopia revisited; Mapping atopia; Two apologies for the atopic Socrates; Socratesinfelix
- 7 Conclusion: What would Socrates do?
- Self-examination and Socratic associationsCivic engagement after Socrates; The dissonance of philosophy; Works Cited; Index.