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Plato's Socrates on Socrates
Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy
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2020
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In Plato's Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and political implications of Plato’s presentation of Socrates’ self-disclosive speech in four dialogues: Theaetetus, Symposium, Apology, and Phaedo. Schultz argues that these moments of Socratic self-disclosure show that Plato’s presentation of “Socrates the narrator” is much more pervasive than the secondary literature typically acknowledges. Despite the pervasive appearance of a Socrates who describes his own experience throughout the dialogues, Socratic autobiographical self-disclosure has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Plato’s use of narrative, particularly his trope of “Socrates the narrator,” is often subsumed into discussions of the dramatic nature of the dialogues more generally rather than studied in its own right. Schultz shows how these carefully crafted narrative remarks add to the richness and profundity of the Platonic texts on multiple levels. To illustrate how these embedded Socratic narratives contribute to the portrait of Socrates as a public philosopher in Plato’s dialogues, the author also examines Socratic self-disclosive practices in the works of bell hooks, Kathy Khang, and Ta-Neishi Coates, and even practices the art of Socratic self-disclosure herself.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9964-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9965-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
141
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Acknowledgments No access
Overview No access Pages 1 - 10
1 Recovering Socrates the Narrator in Plato’s Theaetetus No access Pages 11 - 24
2 Socratic Self-Disclosure in Plato’s Symposium No access Pages 25 - 40
3 Three Imitations of Socratic Narration No access Pages 41 - 60
4 Socratic Self-Disclosure in Plato’s Apology No access Pages 61 - 72
5 Socratic Self-Disclosure in Plato’s Phaedo No access Pages 73 - 100
6 Listening to Socratic Voices No access Pages 101 - 116
