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What Would Socrates Do?: Self-Examination, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Philosophy

What Would Socrates Do?: Self-Examination, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Philosophy


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Socrates continues to be an extremely influential force to this day; his work is featured prominently in the work of contemporary thinkers ranging from Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, to Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière. Intervening in this discussion, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs Socrates' philosophy in ancient Athens to show its promise of empowering citizens and non-citizens alike. By drawing them into collective practices of dialogue and reflection, philosophy can help people to become thinking, acting beings more capable of fully realizing the promises of political life. At the same time, however, Joel Alden Schlosser shows how these practices' commitment to interrogation keeps philosophy at a distance from the democratic status quo, creating a dissonance with conventional forms of politics that opens space for new forms of participation and critical contestation of extant ones.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Socrates in democratic times; 2. Beyond 'Socratic citizenship': transforming accountability; 3. Socrates in drag: love beyond the polis; 4. Fearless speech in democracy: radicalizing frank speaking; 5. Midwifing Athens: Socratic associations; 6. Socrates' atopia revisited; 7. Conclusion: what would Socrates do?

About the Author :
Joel Alden Schlosser has held the Julian Steward Chair in Social Sciences at Deep Springs College, California since July 2010. Previously, he completed his MA and PhD in Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina, and he was a visiting instructor at Carleton College, Minnesota in political theory and constitutional law. This is his first book.

Review :
'Drawing on Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs Socrates' philosophy alongside and against Athens's late fifth-century political culture. Sensitive to text and context, it brings to light the ways in which Socrates' engagements with foreigners, women, slaves, and citizens alike challenged the exclusions of Athens's democratic ideology and transformed Athenian practices of accountability, free speech, and freedom in the direction of more democracy. [This book] develops 'a philosophy that lives in the people who practice it together' as a mode of civic engagement that is no less relevant for contemporary democratic culture than it was for fifth-century Athens.' Jill Frank, University of South Carolina 'In this ambitious and engaging book, Joel Schlosser gives us a new way of thinking about Socrates and his enduring relevance, particularly to the practice of democratic politics. Schlosser encourages us to think about what Socrates would do today by rejecting the common idea of Socrates as ironic. He offers truly novel readings of a range of Socratic practices as irreducibly strange - challenging and complicating Athenian ideas of accountability, frank speech, and education.' John Zumbrunnen, Director, American Democracy Forum, University of Wisconsin, Madison 'Interrupting centuries of reception invested in an ironic Socrates, this bold and beautifully written book provides readers of Plato's dialogues with a far more fascinating and ambivalent figure: that of the atopic Socrates. Schlosser's atopic Socrates opens up new forms of democratic engagement even while putting the Athenians', and our own, most comforting democratic traditions, practices, and pretensions into question. Grounded in a historically informed account of the multilayered complexities of Athenian democratic practices, and a bold new interpretation of Socrates' multidimensional disruptions of them, Schlosser's book challenges the interpretations of Socrates found in the works of Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Sheldon Wolin, Gregory Vlastos, Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour and Michel Foucault. The book poses anew the question 'what would Socrates do?' not only for Plato scholars but also for all contemporary democratic theorists and activists.' Christina Tarnopolsky, McGill University, Montréal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781107067424
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 214
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 460 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1107067421
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Self-Examination, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Philosophy
  • Width: 158 mm


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