A New Politics for Philosophy

Mango Telli; George A. Dunn

doi:10.5771/9781498577335

Summary

A New Politics for Philosophy: Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss presents meticulous readings of key philosophical works of towering figures from both the classical and modern intellectual traditions: Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss. Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars explores questions of the nature or identity of the philosopher. The chapters touch on topics ranging from Plato’s Charmides, Aeschylus’ Prometheia Trilogy, Xenophon’s Hiero or Tyrannicus, Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ecce Homo, Nietzsche’s Plato, whether Nietzsche thought of himself as a modern-day Socrates, philosophy’s relationship to science, the function of the noontide image in the center of Part IV of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, a re-evaluation of the young Nietzsche’s break from the spell of Schopenhauer, the dramatic date of the conversation presented in Plato’s Republic, Leo Strauss’s account of the modern break with classical political philosophy, and Nietzschean environmentalism. The book also includes an interview with Laurence Lampert.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-7732-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-7733-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 330
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. The Philosophical Labors of Laurence Lampert No access
2. Ministerial Poetry and Deadly Truths No access
3. Reading the Order of Rank No access
4. Philosophical and Exegetical Labors No access
5. The Chapters No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
Interview with Laurence Lampert No access Pages 23 - 36
1. 1. Notes No access
  2. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Socrates Returns to Athens No access
  2. Socrates Questioned about the Battle No access
  3. Socrates Inquires about Philosophy No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. 1. Methodology No access
  2. Plato’s Dramatis Personae No access
  3. Plato’s Topical References No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. What Is Known of the Thought of Protagoras No access
  2. Reappraisals of the Authorship and Dating of the Prometheia Trilogy No access
  3. 1. 1. The Need for Guarded Speech No access
    2. 2. The Sophist No access
    3. 3. Philanthrôpía No access
    4. 4. Hope No access
    5. 5. The Gift of Fire No access
    6. 6. Zeus as Subject to Necessity No access
    7. 7. The Secret of Zeus’s Downfall and the Marriage of Power and Wisdom No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
5. 1. 1. From Democracy to Tyranny (Republic 555b–564a) No access
    2. Eros as Drone No access
    3. The Tyrant as Slave No access
  2. 1. Tyranny and the Pleasures of Sex No access
    2. Hiero’s Achilles Heel: Dailochus, the Fairest No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Notes No access
  2. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Notes No access
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3. 1. Lange’s Critique of Metaphysics No access
  2. Physiology and Epistemology No access
  3. Nietzsche’s Dilemma No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Noontide in Antiquity No access
  2. Zarathustra’s Noontide No access
  3. Noontide Happiness No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Natural Settings and Limits No access
  2. Resonances with Chinese Daoism No access
  3. Humans in Nature, Nature in Humans No access
  4. Out of Our Human Corner No access
  5. Physical Practices No access
  6. Living in Accord with Nature No access
  7. Letting Nature Hold Sway No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
1. 1. On Green Cosmopolitanism No access
  2. On Anthropocentricism, Cruelty, Suffering, and Sin No access
  3. On Extinctions and Sustainability No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Girard, Strauss, and Nietzsche No access
  2. René Girard and Mediated Desire No access
  3. The Ladder of Degree No access
  4. The Collapse of Degree No access
  5. The Modern Concern for Victims No access
  6. Leo Strauss and the Passion of the Philosopher No access
  7. Gentlemen No access
  8. The Machiavellian Collapse No access
  9. Mitigating Machiavelli’s Revolting Character No access
  10. Conclusion No access
  11. Notes No access
  12. Bibliography No access
1. Dissertation No access
2. Authored Books No access
3. Edited Book No access
4. Essays No access
Index No access Pages 321 - 326
About the Contributors No access Pages 327 - 330