The Disenchantment of Reason - The Problem of Socrates in Modernity

This book is an examination of nineteenth-century interpretations of Socrates by Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in the light of the contemporary debates over rationality in the modern world. These interpretations of Socrates have fundamentally influenced modern and postmodern thought, and their complexity reflects both an attraction to, and a fear of, the peculiarly modern concept of reason that Socrates is read as embodying.
Socrates is seen in this book as an emblematic figure through which the constitutive tensions between enlightenment and romanticism in modern thought can be understood. In the concluding chapter, Harrison analyzes the claims of discursive reason versus those of deconstruction in the postmodern conflict over the figure of Socrates.

About the author

Paul R. Harrison is Lecturer in the Sociology Department at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Paul R Harrison, Paul R. Harrison
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.1994
• EAN: 9780791418376
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1837-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: Suny Series, Human Communicati; Suny Series, Human Communicati; Suny Social and Political Thou
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Soziologie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Allgemeine Lexika, REFERENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Reference