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A New Politics for Philosophy: Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss presents meticulous readings of key philosophical works of towering figures from both the classical and modern intellectual traditions: Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss. Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars explores questions of the nature or identity of the philosopher. The chapters touch on topics ranging from Plato's Charmides, Aeschylus' Prometheia Trilogy, Xenophon's Hiero or Tyrannicus, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's Plato, whether Nietzsche thought of himself as a modern-day Socrates, philosophy's relationship to science, the function of the noontide image in the center of Part IV of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, a re-evaluation of the young Nietzsche's break from the spell of Schopenhauer, the dramatic date of the conversation presented in Plato's Republic, Leo Strauss's account of the modern break with classical political philosophy, and Nietzschean environmentalism. The book also includes an interview with Laurence Lampert.
List of contents
Introduction
George A. Dunn and Mango Telli
Interview with Laurence Lampert
Conducted by Daniel Blue
Part I: The Classical Background: Plato, Protagoras, Xenophon
Chapter 1: How to Read Plato with Nietzsche's Insights
Liu Xiaofeng
Chapter 2: On the Opening of Plato's Charmides
Peng Lei
Chapter 3: Socrates, Bendis, and Cephalus: Does Plato's Republic Have an Historical Setting?
Christopher Planeaux
Chapter 4: Recovering the Wisdom of Protagoras: A Reinterpretation of the Prometheia Trilogy
Marty Sulek
Chapter 5: Heartache and Heiterkeit in Xenophon's Hiero
Mango Telli
Part II: Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosopher of Our Age
Chapter 6: Zarathustra's Crisis of Redemption
Heinrich Meier
Chapter 7: Nietzsche's Apology: On Reading Ecce Homo, or, How One Becomes What One Is
Leon Harold Craig
Chapter 8: Lange's Consolation Prize: Nietzsche's First Criticisms of Schopenhauer
Daniel Blue
Chapter 9: High Noon on Zarathustra's Mountain: Zarathustra's Midday Vision
Paul Bishop
Chapter 10: Renatured Humans on a Sacred Earth: The Power of Nietzsche's Ecological Thinking
Graham Parkes
Part III: Strauss, Modernity, and Theological-Political Engagements
Chapter 11: From the Death of God to the Death of Man: What Lampert and Nietzsche Can Teach Catholics-and Straussians-about Environmentalism
Peter Minowitz
Chapter 12: The Collapsing Ladder of Degree: René Girard and Leo Strauss on the Origins of Modernity
George A. Dunn
About the author
George A. Dunn is a special research fellow at the Institute for Globalizing Civilization in China.
Mango Telli teaches philosophy and literature at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.
Summary
Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars offer meticulous interpretations of key philosophical works by Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss.
