The Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

Jones, Russell E. (EDT)/ Sharma, Ravi (EDT)/ Smith, Nicholas D. (EDT)

Bloomsbury Academic（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 424 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350415973

Full Description

This handbook provides detailed philosophical analysis of the life and thought of Socrates across fifteen in-depth chapters. Each chapter engages with a central aspect of the rich tradition of Socratic studies and, after surveying the state of scholarship, points the way forward to new directions of interpretation.

A leading team of scholars present dynamic readings of Socrates, extracted from the historical context of Plato's dialogues, covering elenchus, irony, ignorance, definitions, pedagogy, friendship, politics and the daemon. Building on these core Socratic topics, this edition includes new accounts of Socrates in the work of philosopher and historian, Xenophon, the comic playwright, Aristophanes, as well as important scholarship on topics such as emotions, the afterlife, motivational intellectualism and virtue intellectualism.

Fully revised and updated, the Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates elucidates the complex landscape of Socratic thought and interpretation.

Contents

List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations

1. Socrates in Ancient Comedy (Alessandro Stavru, Bocconi University, Italy)

2. Xenophon's Socrates on Teaching and Learning Russell Jones (University of Oklahoma, USA) and Ravi Sharma (Clark University, USA)

3. Socratic Methods, Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

4. Socrates and the Forms, William J. Prior (University of Santa Clara, USA)

5. Socratic Ignorance, Keith McPartland (Williams College, USA)

6. The Priority of Definition, Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma, USA)

7. Socratic Virtue Intellectualism, Justin Clark (Hamilton College, USA)

8. Socratic Eudaimonism, Paul Woodruff (University of Texas-Austin, USA)

9. Socratic Motivational Intellectualism, Freya Möbus (Loyola University of Chicago, USA)

10. Socrates on Love, Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College, USA)

11. Socrates on Emotions, Irina Deretic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

12. Socrates' Political Philosophy, Curtis Johnson (Lewis & Clark College, USA)

13. Socratic Theology and Piety, Mark McPherran (Simon Frasier University, Canada)

14. Socrates on Death and the Afterlife, Emily Austin (Wake Forest University, USA)

15. The Trial of Socrates, Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College, USA)

Bibliography

Index