1st Edition
Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited By Michael Trapp
Copyright 2007
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic... Read more
Contents: Foreword, Judith Herrin and Michael Trapp; Introduction: the 19th- and 20th-century Socrates, Michael Trapp; Socrates in Hegel, Glenn W. Most; A simple wise man of ancient times: Kierkgaard on Socrates, George Pattison; Nietzsche's Socrateases, Michael Silk; Later views of the Socrates of Plato's Symposium, James Lesher; Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon, John Henderson; From amor Socraticus to Socrates amoris: Socrates and the formation of a sexual identity in late Victorian Britain, Alistair Blanshard; The thorn of Sokrates: Georg Kaiser's Alkibiades Saved and Berthold Brecht's Sokrates Wounded, John White; 'Socrates knew...' affect (Besetzung) in Britten's Death in Venice, Christopher Wintle; Effacing Socratic irony: philosophy and technê in John Stuart Mill's translation of the Protagoras, Alexandra Lianeri; Totalitarian Socrates, Iskra Gencheva-Mikami; 'Gadfly in God's own country': Socrates in 20th-century America, Melissa Lane; General bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michael Trapp is Professor of Greek Literature and Thought in the Department of Classics, King's College London, UK.
’The contributors display prodigious scholarship as they explore such themes as Socratic irony, homoeroticism, and the poltical art. All of the essays are informative and interesting...Recommended.’ Choice
