- A Companion to Socrates (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
- Editors: Sara Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar:
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication Date: June 9, 2008
- Print Length: 560 Pages
- Product Description
Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, this Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy.
- Discusses the life of Socrates and key philosophical doctrines associated with him
- Covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to contemporary European philosophy
- Examines Socrates’ place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe
- Addresses interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art
- Helps readers to understand the meaning and significance of Socrates across the ages
This Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy and provides an in-depth discussion of the various approaches to his philosophy.
Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, the volume covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to the present day. The contributors review Socrates’ life and the key philosophical doctrines associated with him and examine Socrates’ place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe. They consider interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art. This distinctive Companion will help readers to understand the meaning and significance of Socrates across the ages.
- About the Editors
Sara Ahbel-Rappe is an Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reading Neoplatonism (2000) and a translation of Damascius’ Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (forthcoming).
Rachana Kamtekar is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
- Reviews
“Everyone interested in Socrates and his legacy will find something valuable in this book…” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
“A remarkably rich and imaginative collection. Socrates was a philosopher who became a cultural icon; this book, with its massive historical range and its great variety of scholarly approach, does unique justice to his complexity.” G.R.F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley
“This is a stimulating collection that succeeds admirably in conveying the enormous range of responses that the ever-puzzling Socrates has inspired through the ages, and continues to inspire. The essays on Plato’s Socrates are fresh and vigorous, and the attention paid to later perspectives (from antiquity to the present, and especially recent centuries) helps make this volume a distinctive and unusually illuminating addition to Socratic studies. It should be a welcome companion to a figure who attracted devoted companions in his lifetime, and legions more ever since.” Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin
“Technical issues are treated thoroughly and comprehensibly and the state of knowledge on Socrates is comprehensively presented both for today and its historical contexts. Its subject matter will be of interest to non-specialists with a penchant for philosophy, or for the history of thought, since there is as much interest here about the influence of Socrates on later periods as there is on the thought of the philosopher himself.” Reference Reviews