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Volume 2, Tome I: Kierkegaard and the Greek World - Socrates and Plato
342 Pages
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Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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The articles in this volume employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Greek tradition. A series of figures of varying importance in Kierkegaard's authorship are treated, ranging from early Greek poets to late Classical philosophical schools. In general it can be said that the Greeks collectively constitute one of the single most important body of... Read more
Contents: Preface; Part I Plato's Socrates: Apology: Kierkegaard's Socratic point of view, Paul Muench; Meno: Kierkegaard and the doctrine of recollection, David D. Possen; Phaedo and Parmenides: Eternity, time, and the moment, or from the abstract philosophical to the concrete Christian, Janne Kylliäinen; Phaedrus: Kierkegaard on Socrates' self-knowledge - and sin, David D. Possen; Protagoras and Republic: Kierkegaard on Socratic irony, David D. Possen; Symposium: Kierkegaard and Platonic eros, Rick Anthony Furtak; Theaetetus: giving birth or Kierkegaard's Socratic maieutics, Marius Timmann Mjaaland; Cumulative Plato bibliography, Katalin Nun. Part II Other Greek Sources on Socrates: Aristophanes: Kierkegaard's understanding of the Socrates of the Clouds, Eric Ziolkowski; Xenophon: Kierkegaard's use of the Socrates of the Memorabilia, William McDonald. Part III Later Interpretations of Socrates: Kierkegaard's Socrates sources: 18th- and 19th-century Danish Scholarship, Tonny Aagaard Olesen; Kierkegaard's Socrates sources: 18th-and 19th-century Germanophone scholarship, Harald Steffes; Indexes
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
