Chewing the Cud
Horace, the Roman poet, once declared that his aim was to say something serious through the medium of comedy. The aim here is to do likewise; to say something serious about Nietzsche's continuing relevance through a fractious and both good and ill-humoured dialogue between an all too- human, and ageing Socrates and his former companion at arms, the Athenian general, Alcibiades. The discussion ranges over matters both personal and philosophical, for, as Horace declined to mention, you only get the wider audience by keeping them rolling in the aisles. To this end a certain license has been taken with events, dates, and the characters…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-909421-22-6
- EAN: 9781909421226
- Produktnummer: 15229620
- Verlag: Arena Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 436 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.3 cm 658 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 658
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Incorrigibly 'old school', the author spent many years lecturing in Higher and Further Education trying, to borrow Socrates' words, to light flames rather than fill vessels. In its own way this book is an attempt to come to terms with the bitter fruit of this failure, albeit in a way sweetened by the comedic aspects. The idea for this dialogue arose from the reading of the passages in The Twilight of the Idols in which Nietzsche mounts a number of his trade-mark idiosyncratic, ad hominem arguments against Socrates. Initially intended as a means of reviewing and explicating the latest Nietzschean scholarship in respect of the 'shadows' still cast by Platonism, the fictionalised element of the dialogue evolved to form its own analogic critique on the way philosophy is written and practiced, especially as embodied here, by its all too human protagonists. To achieve this end, the book turns upon a number of conceits. Liberties are taken with certain dates, events, and, not least, the characters of the principals as they have come down to us from the quills of Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and others. The Nietzschean aspects of the dialogue however, as voiced here by Alcibiades, are taken verbatim from the source texts. The dialogue takes place over the course of the following day of Plato's Symposium. As the fates conspire to bring about the demise of ancient Athens, a sexually importunate and unwitting Socrates waylays a hapless Alcibiades to chew the cud in respect of life, love, and Nietzsche.
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