Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-8140-9 • Hardback • June 2013 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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Christopher A. Dustin earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University, where he completed a dissertation under the direction of Jonathan Lear. While a graduate student, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for independent study in Paris. He has taught at Holy Cross since 1991, chaired the Department of Philosophy from 2000-07, directed the college’s First-Year Program (2007-08) and the Core Human Questions cluster of its Montserrat program (2008-12). A recipient of the Holy Cross Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, Professor Dustin has lectured and published widely on Plato, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Thoreau, and on topics at the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, the philosophy of nature, and religion. He is co-author, with Joanna Ziegler, of Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and is currently at work on a book entitled Arts of Indirection: Freedom and Truth-Telling in Plato, Kierkegaard, and Thoreau.
Denise Schaeffer is associate professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross. Her publications include Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment (forthcoming); Plato: Euthydemus (with Gregory McBrayer and Mary P. Nichols, 2011), and articles and chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Nietzsche.
Introduction: Strange Fellows
Part I: Friendship, Resistance, and the Question of the Good
Chapter 1: Why Socrates and Thrasymachus Become Friends
Chapter 2: The Daimonic Soul: On Plato’s Theages
Part II: Philosophy and Sophistry: The Limits of ‘Logos’
Chapter 3: Philosophy and Sophistry in Plato’s ‘Euthydemus’
Chapter 4: Socrates Talking to Himself? On the ‘Greater Hippias’
Chapter 5: The Sophist Hippias and the Problem of Polytropia
Chapter 6: On Wolves and Dogs: The Eleatic Stranger’s Socratic Turn in the ‘Sophist’
Part III: Imagery, Tragedy, and Tyranny
Chapter 7: Philosophers as Painters: On the Corruptibility of the Philosophic Nature in Plato’s ‘Republic’
Chapter 8: Plato’s ‘Apology’ as Tragedy
Chapter 9: Sophist and Philosopher in Plato’s Sophist
Chapter 10: Socrates’ Odyssean Return: On Plato’s Charmides
Part IV: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Dialogue
Chapter 11: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the Question of Harmony in Plato’s ‘Phaedrus’
Chapter 12: Philosophy in the Perfect Tense: On Plato’s ‘Lovers’
About the Contributors