The Disenchantment of Reason: The Problem of Socrates in ModernityThis 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. |
Contents
Hegel Socrates As the Inventor of Morals | 21 |
Kierkegaard Socrates As Existential Thinker | 67 |
Nietzsche Socrates As Theoretical Man | 121 |
Socrates between Modernity and Postmodernity | 177 |
Notes | 219 |
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The Disenchantment of Reason: The Problem of Socrates in Modernity Paul R. Harrison Limited preview - 1994 |
The Disenchantment of Reason: The Problem of Socrates in Modernity Paul R. Harrison Limited preview - 1994 |
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