Socrates
Subtitle: fictions of a philosopher
By: Sarah Kofman ; translated by Catherine Porter.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Socrates.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-288) and index.