A Companion to Socrates

Notes on Contributors.
 
Preface.
 
Acknowledgments.
 
Part I: Socrates in Antiquity.
 
Section I: Biography and Sources.
 
1. The Trial and Death of Socrates. (Debra Nails).
 
2. Socrates and Euripides. (Christian Wildberg).
 
3. Socrates Among the Sophists. (Paul Woodruff).
 
4. Socrates the Freethinker. (Richard Janko).
 
5. How does Socrates' Divine Sign Communicate with Him? (A. A. Long).
 
6. Socrates, Antisthenes, and the Cynics. (Susan Prince).
 
7. Xenophon's Socrates. (Louis-André Dorion).
 
8. Picturing Socrates. (Ken Lapatin).
 
Section II: Plato.
 
9. Socrates in Plato's Dialogues.(Christopher Rowe).
 
10. No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism. (Heda Segvic).
 
11. Socratic Love. (George Rudebusch).
 
12. Socrates and Religious Experience. (John Bussanich).
 
13. The Politics of Plato's Socrates. (Rachana Kamtekar).
 
14. The Examined Life. (Richard Kraut).
 
15. Socrates: Preacher or Seeker? (Rosalyn Weiss).
 
16. Socratic Method and Socratic Truth. (Harold Tarrant).
 
Section III: Hellenistic Philosophy.
 
17. Socrates in the Stoa. (Eric Brown).
 
18. Socrates and Epictetus. (Tad Brennan).
 
19. Socrates and Skepticism. (Richard Bett).
 
Part II: Socrates After Antiquity.
 
Section IV: From the Medieval Period to Modernity.
 
20. Socrates in Arabic Philosophy. (Ilai Alon).
 
21. Socrates in the Italian Renaissance. (James Hankins).
 
22. The Private Life of Socrates in Early Modern France. (Daniel R. McLean).
 
23. Socrates in Hegel and Others. (Nicholas White).
 
Section V: The Modern Period.
 
25. Kierkegaard's Socratic Point of View. (Paul Meunch).
 
26. Nietzsche and "The Problem of Socrates". (James I. Porter).
 
27. The Socratic Hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer. (Francisco J.

Sara Ahbel-Rappe is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reading Neoplatonism (2000) and a translation of Damascius' Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (forthcoming).

Rachana Kamtekar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

"Everyone interested in Socrates and his legacy will find something valuable in this book..." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"A remarkably rich and imaginative collection. Socrates was a philosopher who became a cultural icon; this book, with its massive historical range and its great variety of scholarly approach, does unique justice to his complexity." G.R.F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley

"This is a stimulating collection that succeeds admirably in conveying the enormous range of responses that the ever puzzling Socrates has inspired through the ages, and continues to inspire. The essays on Plato's Socrates are fresh and vigorous, and the attention paid to later perspectives (from antiquity to the present, and especially recent centuries) helps make this volume a distinctive and unusually illuminating addition to Socratic studies. It should be a welcome companion to a figure who attracted devoted companions in his lifetime, and legions more ever since." Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin

"Technical issues are treated thoroughly and comprehensibly and the state of knowledge on Socrates is comprehensively presented both for today and its historical contexts. Its subject matter will be of interest to non-specialists with a penchant for philosophy, or for the history of thoght, since there is as much of interest here about the influence of Socrates on later periods as there is on the thought of the philosopher himself." Reference Reviews

"Everyone interested in Socrates and his legacy will find something valuable in this book..." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
 
"A remarkably rich and imaginative collection. Socrates was a philosopher who became a cultural icon; this book, with its massive historical range and its great variety of scholarly approach, does unique justice to his complexity."
G.R.F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley
 
"This is a stimulating collection that succeeds admirably in conveying the enormous range of responses that the ever puzzling Socrates has inspired through the ages, and continues to inspire. The essays on Plato's Socrates are fresh and vigorous, and the attention paid to later perspectives (from antiquity to the present, and especially recent centuries) helps make this volume a distinctive and unusually illuminating addition to Socratic studies. It should be a welcome companion to a figure who attracted devoted companions in his lifetime, and legions more ever since." Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin
 
"Technical issues are treated thoroughly and comprehensibly and the state of knowledge on Socrates is comprehensively presented both for today and its historical contexts. Its subject matter will be of interest to non-specialists with a penchant for philosophy, or for the history of thoght, since there is as much of interest here about the influence of Socrates on later periods as there is on the thought of the philosopher himself." Reference Reviews