What would Socrates do? : self-examination, civic engagement, and the politics of philosophy /

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Author / Creator:	Schlosser, Joel Alden.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Socrates. Socrates. Democracy. Political science -- Philosophy. Democracy. Political science -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12869334

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ISBN:	9781316021590 1316021599 9781107590229 1107590221 9781316021712 1316021718 9781107067424 1107067421 9781107672260 1107672260
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	"Socrates continues to be an extremely influential force to this day; his work is featured prominently in the work of contemporary thinkers ranging from Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, to Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière. Intervening in this discussion, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs Socrates' philosophy in ancient Athens to show its promise of empowering citizens and non-citizens alike. By drawing them into collective practices of dialogue and reflection, philosophy can help people to become thinking, acting beings more capable of fully realizing the promises of political life. At the same time, however, Joel Alden Schlosser shows how these practices' commitment to interrogation keeps philosophy at a distance from the democratic status quo, creating a dissonance with conventional forms of politics that opens space for new forms of participation and critical contestation of extant ones"--
Other form:	Print version: Schlosser, Joel Alden. What would Socrates do? 9781107067424

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Gadfly explanation; 1 Introduction: Socrates in democratic times; Reconstructing Socrates; Before irony: Socrates'atopia
Translating Socrates; 2Beyond Socratic citizenship: Transforming accountability; The torpedo fish; An ignorant schoolmaster38; Freeing the slaves; Anytus'Athens; Aporia and atopia; 3 Socrates in drag: Love beyond the polis; The erotic practices of Athenian democracy5; Subverting the erotic practices of Athenian democracy; Alcibiades and the crisis of subversion.
Socrates and his girlfriends: Xenophon'sMemorabiliaEmbodying philosophy; 4 Fearless speech in democracy: Radicalizing frank speaking; Parrhesiasticdialogue; Decenteringparrhesia
The risks of fearless speech; Socrates in Aristophanes'Clouds
Fearless speech in democracy; 5 Midwifing Athens: Socratic associations; The midwife; Gentling the Athenians; Socrates'sunousiai
Midwifing democracy; Philosophy in the world; 6 Socrates'atopia revisited; Mapping atopia; Two apologies for the atopic Socrates; Socratesinfelix
7 Conclusion: What would Socrates do?
Self-examination and Socratic associationsCivic engagement after Socrates; The dissonance of philosophy; Works Cited; Index.

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