Michael Trapp
Ashgate
Hardback
596
2007
With contributions by both established and rising scholars these two volumes survey interpretations and uses of this most iconic of all ancient philosophers over nearly 2 500 years principally outside the confines of formal philosophy. The treatments discussed range from those of Aristophanes Plato and Xenophon in antiquity to presentations and exploitations of Socrates in twentieth-century American political discourse and Cold War Bulgaria via the hugely influential nineteenth-century readings of Hegel Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Special attention is given in both volumes to representations of Socrates in music drama and the visual arts.
Ashgate
Hardback
596
2007
With contributions by both established and rising scholars these two volumes survey interpretations and uses of this most iconic of all ancient philosophers over nearly 2 500 years principally outside the confines of formal philosophy. The treatments discussed range from those of Aristophanes Plato and Xenophon in antiquity to presentations and exploitations of Socrates in twentieth-century American political discourse and Cold War Bulgaria via the hugely influential nineteenth-century readings of Hegel Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Special attention is given in both volumes to representations of Socrates in music drama and the visual arts.