Xanthippic Dialogues: A Philosophical Fiction - Softcover

Scruton, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856192814 ISBN 13: 9781856192811

Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

How many ideas in Plato's dialogues would the true Socrates have put forward? Now the real Plato is uncovered by the woman whom he banished from his arguments. The mask lifts in this witty expose, to reveal Xanthippe, Socrates' wife, Aristotle's tutor, and Founding Mother of the Western world.

About this title

Review

"A riotous send-up of scholarly writing. If philosophy seems an unlikely subject for comedy,
try this.. -- The Financial Times

"Prodigiously learned, exquisitely malicious, and relentlessly subversive of the 'bien pensant' pieties of our age." -- The Sunday Telegraph

"What is original is the working of it into a rich complex, compelling, fluent and natural-seeming fiction" -- Robert Grant, 'Philosophical Quarterly'

About the Author

Roger Scruton was born on 27 February 1944, and was raised in Marlow and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire with his two sisters. He was educated at Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, from which he was expelled shortly after winning a scholarship to Cambridge. He studied moral sciences at Jesus College from 1962, receiving a BA in 1965, incepted as MA in 1967. He was awarded a PhD in 1972 for a thesis on aesthetics, also from Cambridge. After graduating, Scruton spent two years abroad before pursuing an academic career in philosophy, first in Cambridge and then in London. In 1990, he took a year's leave of absence to work for an educational charity in Czechoslovakia. He then taught part-time at Boston University Massachusetts until the end of 1994, while building up a public affairs consultancy in Eastern Europe. He currently holds three positions: visiting professor at Oxford University; visiting professor in the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856192814
• ISBN 13: 9781856192811
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277