Socrates and Aristophanes
内容简介
In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy.
......(更多)
作者简介
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the author of many books, among them The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Natural Right and History,and Spinoza’s Critique of Religion, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
......(更多)
目录
I: Introduction
II: The Clouds
III: The Other Plays
1: The Acharnians
2: The Knights
3: The Wasps
4: The Peace
5: The Birds
6: The Lysistrate
7: The Thesmophoriazusai
8: The Frogs
9: The Assembly of Women
10: The Plutos
IV: Conclusion
Notes
Index
......(更多)
读书文摘
这是很清楚的：狄奥尼索斯缺乏远见。他决定乔装成赫拉克勒斯下冥府就足以表明这一点，正是这个决定，使他像奴隶一样受鞭打。我们不由得怀疑，他下冥府的动机——带回欧里庇得斯的渴望——是不是缺乏远见的结果P258
......(更多)
