The Way of the Platonic Socrates

Who is Socrates? While most readers know him as the central figure in Plato's work, he is hard to characterize. In this book, S. Montgomery Ewegen opens this long-standing and difficult question once again. Reading Socrates against a number of Platonic texts, Ewegen sets out to understand the way of Socrates. Taking on the nuances and contours of Socrates that emerge from the dramatic and philosophical contexts of Plato's works, Ewegen considers questions of withdrawal, retreat, powerlessness, poverty, concealment, and release and how they construct a new view of Socrates. For Ewegen, Socrates is a powerful but strange and uncanny figure. Ewegen's withdrawn Socrates forever evades rigid interpretation and must instead remain a deep and insoluble question.

Author: S. Montgomery Ewegen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780253047564

About the Author

S. Montgomery Ewegen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College. He is the author of Plato's Cratylus: The Comedy of Language and translator (with Julia Goesser Assaiante) of Martin Heidegger's Heraclitus.