Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Contents: Foreword, Judith Herrin and Michael Trapp Introduction: the 19th- and 20th-century Socrates, Michael Trapp Socrates in Hegel, Glenn W. Most A simple wise man of ancient times: Kierkgaard on Socrates, George Pattison Nietzsche's Socrateases, Michael Silk Later views of the Socrates of Plato's Symposium, James Lesher Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon, John Henderson From amor Socraticus to Socrates amoris: Socrates and the formation of a sexual identity in late Victorian Britain, Alistair Blanshard The thorn of Sokrates: Georg Kaiser's Alkibiades Saved and Berthold Brecht's Sokrates Wounded, John White 'Socrates knewa |' affect (Besetzung) in Britten's Death in Venice, Christopher Wintle Effacing Socratic irony: philosophy and technA* in John Stuart Mill's translation of the Protagoras, Alexandra Lianeri Totalitarian Socrates, Iskra Gencheva-Mikami 'Gadfly in God's own country': Socrates in 20th-century America, Melissa Lane General bibliography Index.