The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault: 61 - Rilegato

Nehamas, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0520211731 ISBN 13: 9780520211735

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1998

Riassunto

A comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the continuing importance of the thought of Socrates in Western philosophy demonstrates how the Socratic concern for the correct way to live one's life has influenced such modern philosopher's as Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. UP.

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L'autore:

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, ofAristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays (1994) and the author, with Paul Woodruff, of a translation and commentary onPlato's Phaedrus (1995) and Symposium (1989). He is also the author ofNietzsche: Life as Literature (1985) and of Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (1998).

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"This is an amazingly broad-ranging book, full of original ideas and associations that make it both a pleasure and a challenge to read. . . . I found that many of Nehamas's ideas and arguments resonated in my mind for weeks after reading this book."Shadi Bartsch, author of Ideology in Cold Blood

"Combining, as he does, philosophy, literature, and classical studies, Nehamas has written an exceptionally fine bookcreative, original, readable, stimulating, and extremely useful."A.A. Long, University of California, Berkeley

"The Art of Living is elegantly and engagingly written: it is both scholarly and personal, lively and yet balanced. This is a brilliant and outstanding work."Mark Griffith, coeditor ofCabinet of the Muses

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520211731
• ISBN 13: 9780520211735
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 356