Art of Living - Socratic Reflections From Plato to Foucault

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About the author

Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the coeditor, with David J. Furley, of Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays (1994) and the author, with Paul Woodruff, of a translation and commentary on Plato's Phaedrus (1995) and Symposium (1989). He is also the author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985) and of Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (1998).

Summary

For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Nehamas
• Assisted by: Alexander Nehamas (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780520224902
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22490-2
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Sather Classical Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, social and political philosophy, Literature: history and criticism, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy