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Article: Wilson, Emily. The Death of Socrates.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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WILSON, Emily. The Death of Socrates. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 240 pp. Cloth, $19.95--Wilson's book is what she calls a "kind of archeology in the history of ideas" (p. 4). Her focus is the West's various reactions to the death of Socrates: why and how it has mattered, as much or more than his arguments, to so many subsequent philosophers, writers, artists, and other cultural figures. Her broad study discusses the reflections and works of Plato, Xenophon, Aristophanes, Cato, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, Lucian, the Cynics and Stoics, Christians of different eras, Milton, Montaigne, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hegel, Nietzsche, Popper, Stone, Brecht, Martin ...
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