Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
[Book]
Florence
Taylor and Francis,
2007.
(258 pages).
Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London.
Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Foreword Contributors List of figures Introduction: the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Socrates 1. Socrates in Hegel 2. A simple wise man of ancient times: Kierkegaard on Socrates 3. Nietzsche's Socrateases 4. Later views of the Socrates of Plato's Symposium 5. Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon 6. From amor Socraticus to Socrates amoris: Socrates and the formation of a sexual identity in late Victorian Britain 7. The thorn of Sokrates: Georg Kaiser's Alkibiades Saved and Bertolt Brecht's Sokrates Wounded. 8. 'Socrates knew . . .' affect (Besetzung) in Britten's Death in Venice9. Effacing Socratic irony: philosophy and technê in John Stuart Mill's translation of the Protagoras 10. Totalitarian Socrates 11. 'Gadfly in God's Own Country': Socrates in twentieth-century America General bibliography Index.