Socratic Charis - Philosophy Without the Agon

Informationen zum Autor Lisa A. Wilkinson is associate professor of philosophy at Nebraska Wesleyan University and author of "Parmenides and To Eon: Reconsidering Muthos and Logos". Klappentext This work offers an evaluation of Plato's portrayal of "Socrates" in relation to models of the ancient Greek "agon", oral poetic performance, and the practices of "xenia". The author reinterprets the values of the oral tradition and xenia as non-agonistic, and shows how these values can illuminate the dramatic and philosophical import of Plato's Socrates in ways potentially relevant to current thinking about "demokratia". Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Gold for BronzeChapter 1: Troubling the AgonThe Myth of the AgonThe Politics of the AgonThe History of the AgonChapter 2: Non-Agonistic PracticesWho and What is Zeus?MusesNon-Agonistic SpeechChapter 3: Xenia: An economy of CharisGift PracticesXeniaGod for BronzeChapter 4: The "Gift" of SocratesInterregnumWho and What is Socrates?Socrates as GiftThe Economy of PhilosophyChapter 5: Socratic CharisPoetic CharisCephalus: A Graceful Head?Socratic CharisEpilogue - Listening for the TyrantBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Wilkinson, Lisa Atwood Wilkinson, Wilkinson Lisa Atwood
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780739167175
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6717-5
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500