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Loading... The Disenchantment of Reason: The Problem of Socrates in Modernity (Suny Series in Social and Political Thought) (edition 1994)by Paul R. Harrison
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This book is an examination of nineteenth-century interpretations of Socrates by Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in the light of the contemporary debates over rationality in the modern world. These interpretations of Socrates have fundamentally influenced modern and postmodern thought, and their complexity reflects both an attraction to, and a fear of, the peculiarly modern concept of reason that Socrates is read as embodying. Socrates is seen in this book as an emblematic figure through which the constitutive tensions between enlightenment and romanticism in modern thought can be understood. In the concluding chapter, Harrison analyzes the claims of discursive reason versus those of deconstruction in the postmodern conflict over the figure of Socrates. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)183.2Philosophy and Psychology Ancient, medieval and eastern philosophy Sophistic and Socratic SocratesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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