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).

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• Preface Introduction PART ONE: SILENCE 1.Platonic Irony: Author and Audience 2.Socratic Irony: Character and Interlocutors 3.Socratic Irony: Character and Author PART TWO: VOICES 4.A Face for Socrates' Reason: Montaigne's "Of physiognomy" 5.A Reason for Socrates' Face: Nietzsche on "The problem of Socrates" 6.A Fate for Socrates' Reason: Foucault on the Care of the Self Notes Bibliography Index

1. 5/5

   Ett litet mästerverk

   En ren njutning att läsa. Det sokratiska problemet skildras på ett lysande sätt. Nehamas tillämpar sina idéer om individualitet på Montaigne, Nietzsche och Foucault och diskuterar hur de förhåller sig til gestalten Sokrates.

   Martin

   14 november 2016

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).

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• Preface Introduction PART ONE: SILENCE 1.Platonic Irony: Author and Audience 2.Socratic Irony: Character and Interlocutors 3.Socratic Irony: Character and Author PART TWO: VOICES 4.A Face for Socrates' Reason: Montaigne's "Of physiognomy" 5.A Reason for Socrates' Face: Nietzsche on "The problem of Socrates" 6.A Fate for Socrates' Reason: Foucault on the Care of the Self Notes Bibliography Index

1. 5/5

   Ett litet mästerverk

   En ren njutning att läsa. Det sokratiska problemet skildras på ett lysande sätt. Nehamas tillämpar sina idéer om individualitet på Montaigne, Nietzsche och Foucault och diskuterar hur de förhåller sig til gestalten Sokrates.

   Martin

   14 november 2016

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).

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• Preface Introduction PART ONE: SILENCE 1.Platonic Irony: Author and Audience 2.Socratic Irony: Character and Interlocutors 3.Socratic Irony: Character and Author PART TWO: VOICES 4.A Face for Socrates' Reason: Montaigne's "Of physiognomy" 5.A Reason for Socrates' Face: Nietzsche on "The problem of Socrates" 6.A Fate for Socrates' Reason: Foucault on the Care of the Self Notes Bibliography Index

1. 5/5

   Ett litet mästerverk

   En ren njutning att läsa. Det sokratiska problemet skildras på ett lysande sätt. Nehamas tillämpar sina idéer om individualitet på Montaigne, Nietzsche och Foucault och diskuterar hur de förhåller sig til gestalten Sokrates.

   Martin

   14 november 2016