Socratic and platonic political philosophy : practicing a politics of reading / Christopher P. Long, the Pennsylvania State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Christopher P. (Christopher Philip), 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Political and social views.

Plato.

Socrates--Political and social views.

Socrates.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Socratic & Platonic Political Philosophy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the Gorgias, Socrates claims to practice the true art of politics, but the peculiar politics he practices involves cultivating in each individual he encounters an erotic desire to live a life animated by the ideals of justice, beauty and the good. Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy demonstrates that what Socrates sought to do with those he encountered, Platonic writing attempts to do with readers. Christopher P. Long's attentive readings of the Protagoras, Gorgias, Phaedo, Apology, and Phaedrus invite us to cultivate the habits of thinking and responding that mark the practices of both Socratic and Platonic politics. Platonic political writing is here experienced in a new way as the contours of a politics of reading emerges in which the community of readers is called to consider how a commitment to speaking the truth and acting toward justice can enrich our lives together.

Contents:

Politics as philosophy

Crisis of community

Attempting the political art

The politics of finitude

Socratic disturbances, Platonic politics

The politics of writing

Philosophy as politics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-91470-7

1-139-89904-X

1-139-90302-0

1-139-90691-7

1-107-12492-1

1-107-69505-8

1-139-91077-9

1-139-91862-1

1-139-92251-3

1-139-62889-5