Author

Publication

1998 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

74,000 words, Guess

Page Count

296 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL350484M
  • ISBN-10080143551X
  • OCLC Control Number38206595
  • Library of Congress Control Number98009840
  • LibraryThing1168655
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  • Goodreads1255473

Classifications

  • DDC183/.2
  • LCCB317 .K6413 1998

Description

Socrates is an flusive figure, Sarah Kofman asserts, and he is necessarily so since he did not write or directly state his beliefs. Kofman suggests that Socrates' avowal of ignorance was meant to be ironic. Later philosophers who interpreted his text invariably resisted the profoundly ironic character of his way of life and diverged widely in their interpretations of him. Kofman focuses especially on the views of Plato, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.

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Other Editions

  • Socrates: fictions of a philosopherCornell University Press1998-01-01

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