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1998 Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction PART ONE: SILENCE 1.Platonic Irony: Author and Audience 2.Socratic Irony: Character and Interlocutors 3.Socratic Irony: Character and Author PART TWO: VOICES 4.A Face for Socrates' Reason: Montaigne's "Of physiognomy" 5.A Reason for Socrates' Face: Nietzsche on "The problem of Socrates" 6.A Fate for Socrates' Reason: Foucault on the Care of the Self Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the coeditor, with David J. Furley, of Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays (1994) and the author, with Paul Woodruff, of a translation and commentary on Plato's Phaedrus (1995) and Symposium (1989). He is also the author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985) and of Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (1998).

Reviews

"[A] beautifully lucid account of philosophy as the art of constructing a unified self."--Melissa Lane, "Classical Review

"[A] beautifully lucid account of philosophy as the art of constructing a unified self."--Melissa Lane, "Classical Review