A New Politics for Philosophy: Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss presents meticulous readings of key philosophical works of towering figures from both the classical and modern intellectual traditions: Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss. Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars explores questions of the nature or identity of the philosopher. The chapters touch on topics ranging from Plato’s Charmides, Aeschylus’ Prometheia Trilogy, Xenophon’s Hiero or Tyrannicus, Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ecce Homo, Nietzsche’s Plato, whether Nietzsche thought of himself as a modern-day Socrates, philosophy’s relationship to science, the function of the noontide image in the center of Part IV of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, a re-evaluation of the young Nietzsche’s break from the spell of Schopenhauer, the dramatic date of the conversation presented in Plato’s Republic, Leo Strauss’s account of the modern break with classical political philosophy, and Nietzschean environmentalism. The book also includes an interview with Laurence Lampert.
Author(s): George A. Dunn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 338
City: Lanham
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Philosophy and Its Poetry • George A. Dunn and Mango Telli
Interview with Laurence Lampert • Conducted by Daniel Blue
PART I: THE CLASSICAL BACKGROUND: PLATO, PROTAGORAS, AND XENOPHON
1 How to Read Plato with Nietzschean Insights • Liu Xiaofeng
2 On the Opening of Plato’s Charmides • Peng Lei
3 Socrates, Bendis, and Cephalus: Does Plato’s Republic Have an Historical Setting? • Christopher Planeaux
4 Recovering the Wisdom of Protagoras: A Reinterpretation of the Prometheia Trilogy • Marty Sulek
5 What Makes a Wise Man Laugh?: On Eros and Heartache in Xenophon’s Hiero • Mango Telli
PART II: FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: PHILOSOPHER OF OUR AGE
6 Zarathustra’s Crisis of Redemption • Heinrich Meier
7 Nietzsche’s Apology: On Reading Ecce Homo, or, How One Becomes What One Is • Leon Harold Craig
8 Lange’s Consolation Prize: Nietzsche’s First Criticisms of Schopenhauer • Daniel Blue
9 High Noon on Zarathustra’s Mountain: Zarathustra’s Midday Vision • Paul Bishop
10 Renatured Humans on a Sacred Earth: The Power of Nietzsche’s Ecological Thinking • Graham Parkes
PART III: STRAUSS, MODERNITY, AND THEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL ENGAGEMENTS
11 From the Death of God to the Death of Man: What Lampert and Nietzsche Can Teach Catholics—and Straussians—about Environmentalism • Peter Minowitz
12 The Collapsing Ladder of Degree: René Girard and Leo Strausson the Origins of Modernity • George A. Dunn
Bibliography of Works by Laurence Lampert
Index
About the Contributors
