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<p><i>Notes on Contributors x</i></p> <p><i>Preface xiv</i></p> <p><i>Acknowledgments xxiv</i></p> <p><b>PART ONE: SOCRATES IN ANTIQUITY</b></p> <p><b>Section I: Biography and Sources</b></p> <p>1 The Trial and Death of Socrates 5<br /> <i>Debra Nails</i></p> <p>2 Socrates and Euripides 21<br /> <i>Christian Wildberg</i></p> <p>3 Socrates Among the Sophists 36<br /> <i>Paul Woodruff</i></p> <p>4 Socrates the Freethinker 48<br /> <i>Richard Janko</i></p> <p>5 How Does Socrates’ Divine Sign Communicate with Him? 63<br /> <i>A. A. Long</i></p> <p>6 Socrates, Antisthenes, and the Cynics 75<br /> <i>Susan Prince</i></p> <p>7 Xenophon’s Socrates 93<br /> <i>Louis-André Dorion</i></p> <p>8 Picturing Socrates 110<br /> <i>Kenneth Lapatin</i></p> <p><b>Section II: Plato</b></p> <p>9 Socrates in Plato’s Dialogues 159<br /> <i>Christopher Rowe</i></p> <p>10 No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism 171<br /> <i>Heda Segvic</i></p> <p>11 Socratic Love 186<br /> <i>George Rudebusch</i></p> <p>12 Socrates and Religious Experience 200<br /> <i>John Bussanich</i></p> <p>13 The Politics of Plato’s Socrates 214<br /> <i>Rachana Kamtekar</i></p> <p>14 The Examined Life 228<br /> <i>Richard Kraut</i></p> <p>15 Socrates: Seeker or Preacher? 243<br /> <i>Roslyn Weiss</i></p> <p>16 Socratic Method and Socratic Truth 254<br /> <i>Harold Tarrant</i></p> <p><b>Section III: Hellenistic Philosophy</b></p> <p>17 Socrates in the Stoa 275<br /> <i>Eric Brown</i></p> <p>18 Socrates and Epictetus 285<br /> <i>Tad Brennan</i></p> <p>19 Socrates and Skepticism 299<br /> <i>Richard Bett</i></p> <p><b>PART TWO: SOCRATES AFTER ANTIQUITY</b></p> <p><b>Section IV: From the Medieval Period to Modernity</b></p> <p>20 Socrates in Arabic Philosophy 317<br /> <i>Ilai Alon</i></p> <p>21 Socrates in the Italian Renaissance 337<br /> <i>James Hankins</i></p> <p>22 The Private Life of Socrates in Early Modern France 353<br /> <i>Daniel R. McLean</i></p> <p>23 Socrates in Hegel and Others 368<br /> <i>Nicholas White</i></p> <p><b>Section V: The Modern Period</b></p> <p>24 Kierkegaard’s Socratic Point of View 389<br /> <i>Paul Muench</i></p> <p>25 Nietzsche and “The Problem of Socrates” 406<br /> <i>James I. Porter</i></p> <p>26 The Socratic Hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer 426<br /> <i>Francisco J. Gonzalez</i></p> <p>27 The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis 442<br /> <i>Jonathan Lear</i></p> <p>28 Lacan and Socrates 463<br /> <i>Mark Buchan</i></p> <p>29 From Grade School to Law School: Socrates’ Legacy in Education 476<br /> <i>Avi Mintz</i></p> <p>30 Socrates’ Definitional Inquiries and the History of Philosophy 493<br /> <i>Hayden W. Ausland</i></p> <p><i>Index 511</i></p>

"Everyone interested in Socrates and his legacy will find something valuable in this book..." <i>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</i><br /> <p>"A remarkably rich and imaginative collection. Socrates was a philosopher who became a cultural icon; this book, with its massive historical range and its great variety of scholarly approach, does unique justice to his complexity."<br /> <i>G.R.F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley</i><br /> </p> <p>"This is a stimulating collection that succeeds admirably in conveying the enormous range of responses that the ever puzzling Socrates has inspired through the ages, and continues to inspire. The essays on Plato's Socrates are fresh and vigorous, and the attention paid to later perspectives (from antiquity to the present, and especially recent centuries) helps make this volume a distinctive and unusually illuminating addition to Socratic studies. It should be a welcome companion to a figure who attracted devoted companions in his lifetime, and legions more ever since." <i>Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin</i><br /> </p> <p>"Technical issues are treated thoroughly and comprehensibly and the state of knowledge on Socrates is comprehensively presented both for today and its historical contexts. Its subject matter will be of interest to non-specialists with a penchant for philosophy, or for the history of thoght, since there is as much of interest here about the influence of Socrates on later periods as there is on the thought of the philosopher himself." <i>Reference Reviews</i></p>

<b>Sara Ahbel-Rappe</b> is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She is the author of <i>Reading Neoplatonism</i> (2000) and a translation of Damascius’ <i>Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles</i> (forthcoming).<br /> <p><b>Rachana Kamtekar</b> is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.</p>

This <i>Companion</i> explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy and provides an in-depth discussion of the various approaches to his philosophy. <br /> <p>Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, the volume covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to the present day. The contributors review Socrates’ life and the key philosophical doctrines associated with him, and examine Socrates’ place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe. They consider interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art.</p> <p>This distinctive <i>Companion</i> will help readers to understand the meaning and significance of Socrates across the ages.</p>

"A remarkably rich and imaginative collection. Socrates was a philosopher who became a cultural icon; this book, with its massive historical range and its great variety of scholarly approach, does unique justice to his complexity."<br /> <i>–G.R.F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley</i><br /> <p>"This is a stimulating collection that succeeds admirably in conveying the enormous range of responses that the ever puzzling Socrates has inspired through the ages, and continues to inspire. The essays on Plato's Socrates are fresh and vigorous, and the attention paid to later perspectives (from antiquity to the present, and especially recent centuries) helps make this volume a distinctive and unusually illuminating addition to Socratic studies. It should be a welcome companion to a figure who attracted devoted companions in his lifetime, and legions more ever since."<br /> –<i>Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin</i></p>

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