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Book SynopsisIn Plato''s Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and political implications of Plato's presentation of Socrates' self-disclosive speech in four dialogues: Theaetetus, Symposium, Apology, and Phaedo. Schultz argues that these moments of Socratic self-disclosure show that Plato's presentation of Socrates the narrator is much more pervasive than the secondary literature typically acknowledges. Despite the pervasive appearance of a Socrates who describes his own experience throughout the dialogues, Socratic autobiographical self-disclosure has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Plato's use of narrative, particularly his trope of Socrates the narrator, is often subsumed into discussions of the dramatic nature of the dialogues more generally rather than studied in its own right. Schultz shows how these carefully crafted narrative remarks add to the richness and profundity of the Plat
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Recovering Socrates the Narrator in the TheaetetusChapter Two: Socratic Self-Disclosure in the SymposiumChapter Three: Three Imitations of Socratic NarrationChapter Four: Socratic Self-Disclosure in the ApologyChapter Five: Socratic Self-Disclosure in the PhaedoChapter Six: Listening to Socratic Voices
Postscript: Becoming a Public Philosopher
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