Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates - Image 1

£91.48

Lexington Books Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates

Name: Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates
Brand: Lexington Books
Price: 91.48 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£91 today · previous high £91 · all-time low £60

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 638 days • 638 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 638 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £79 (352 days, 55.2%)

Price range: £60 - £91

Price levels: 4 different prices over 638 days

Description

Apologizing for Socrates examines some of Plato's and Xenophon's Socratic writings, specifically those that address well-known controversiese concerning the life and death of Socrates. Gabriel Danzig argues that the effort to defend Socrates from a variety of contemporary charges helps explain some of the central philosophical arguments and literary features that appear in these works. Concentrating on the two Apologies, Crito, Euthyphro, Xenophon's Symposium and Memorabilia, Lysis, and Oeconommicus, Danzig argues that the apologetic efforts were essential for rebuilding the community of Socratic friends and companions, which was devastated by the trial and death of Socrates. The Socratic writings are not merely literary or philosophical endeavors, but also political acts of great competence. Review "Exciting, scholarly and partly convincing....the book should be urgent reading for all serious students of Socrates."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created our Socrates complements such existing approaches as the assumption that Socrates adapts his argumentative style to his interlocutor or the assumption that Plato's thinking changed during his career.... Apologizing for Socrates is well worth reading for anyone interested in the historical Socrates or the authorial agendas of Plato and Xenophon.--The Journal of Hellenic Studies Gabriel Danzig's Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates provides an original and illuminating approach to the puzzle posed by the undeniable inconsistencies in the Platonic corpus as well as by the apparent logical lapses in the Socratic arguments presented in Plato's dialogues. Judiciously consulting Xenophon's portrait of Socrates and comparing it with Plato's, Danzig suggests that both authors engaged in defending Socrates against the suspicions and deprecations of him by his contemporaries. Situating both Plato and Xenophon within their historical milieu, Danzig refreshingly charts a middle course between, on the one hand, judging Plato unduly harshly, and, on the other, going to extreme interpretive lengths to secure his reputation as a literary and philosophical genius.--Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University Bold in its main hypothesis and both lucid and scholarly in detail, Danzig's book will have to be read by any Hellenist or philosopher with a serious interest in Socrates and Plato.--Michael C. Stokes, Durham University About the Author Gabriel Danzig is chair of the department of classics and a lecturer in the department of philosophy at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is also author of the Hebrew translation of Socratic Dialogues: Xenophon's Apology of Socrates, Symposium and Oeconomicus.

Product Specifications

Brand: Lexington Books
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 073913244X
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 March 2010
Listed Since: 23 September 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Lexington Books Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Xenophon’s Socratic Works: The Other Socrates (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

Socrates: Critical Assessments (Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers)

Socrates in the Cave: On the Philosopher’s Motive in Plato (Recovering Political Philosophy)

The Ideas of Socrates (Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy): 12

Rhetorik der Verunsicherung: Affekt-Strategien in den platonischen Frühdialogen: 5 (Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes, 5)

Politics of Socratic Humor (The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature)

Socrates II (Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers)

Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London)

A Companion to Socrates: 6 (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

Ancient Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy)

Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts (Rereading Ancient Philosophy)

Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Socratic Educational Strategies: Emerging Research and Opportunities (Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design)

Bloomsbury Plato's Socratic Conversations - Three Dialogues

Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London)

On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues (Critical Perspectives)

Socrates Dissatisfied: An Analysis of Plato's Crito

The Philosopher's Song: The Poets' Influence on Plato (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)

Plato: Menexenus (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Socratic Philosophy and Its Others

The Neoplatonic Socrates

Leo Strauss on Plato’s "Protagoras" (The Leo Strauss Transcript Series)

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Plato and Socrates (RLE: Plato): A Comprehensive Bibliography 1958-1973. (Routledge Library Editions: Plato)

The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates