Tubbs Nigel (University Of Winchester Uk)
Tubbs Nigel (University Of Winchester Uk) - Socrates On Trial - Paperback
Tubbs Nigel (University Of Winchester Uk) - Socrates On Trial - Paperback
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Description: Named by Rowan Williams as one of his Books of the Year (2021) in the New Statesman. Socrates On Trial tells of Socrates's return to a modern city that is plagued by prejudice privilege and populism. On resuming his questioning in the agora he is arrested interrogated by his prosecutors questioned by his Judge and confessed to by his inquisitor. On a Festival Day he explores a new model for the just city - - a city based not on mastery but on learning - - before offering a new apology to the court that will once again decide his fate. This new/old Socrates offers the city a renewed vision of justice by reconceptualizing the meaning and significance of thinking and education. From the force of Socratic questioning he unfolds a different logic of truth freedom and justice. His conversations exert a gravitational force that draws key cultural elements of the city - - property wealth money family essence gendered and racialized identities production distribution and consumption - - into its educational orbit. At stake here is the vulnerability of modern democracy to authoritarian leaders and their sponsors. Influenced by sophisticated propaganda people's frustration with democracy is channeled into visceral anger on the one hand and into disillusioned scepticism and cynicism on the other. Belief in truth and education collapses in exhaustion and fatigue caught in the headlights of seemingly irresolvable and petrifying rational paradoxes that block all paths to social justice. Socrates On Trial describing the return of Socrates to the modern city heralds a new education for such a city.
Title: Socrates On Trial
Author(s): Tubbs Nigel (University Of Winchester Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350053717
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 11/30/2021
Category: Politics & Government
Description: Named by Rowan Williams as one of his Books of the Year (2021) in the New Statesman. Socrates On Trial tells of Socrates's return to a modern city that is plagued by prejudice privilege and populism. On resuming his questioning in the agora he is arrested interrogated by his prosecutors questioned by his Judge and confessed to by his inquisitor. On a Festival Day he explores a new model for the just city - - a city based not on mastery but on learning - - before offering a new apology to the court that will once again decide his fate. This new/old Socrates offers the city a renewed vision of justice by reconceptualizing the meaning and significance of thinking and education. From the force of Socratic questioning he unfolds a different logic of truth freedom and justice. His conversations exert a gravitational force that draws key cultural elements of the city - - property wealth money family essence gendered and racialized identities production distribution and consumption - - into its educational orbit. At stake here is the vulnerability of modern democracy to authoritarian leaders and their sponsors. Influenced by sophisticated propaganda people's frustration with democracy is channeled into visceral anger on the one hand and into disillusioned scepticism and cynicism on the other. Belief in truth and education collapses in exhaustion and fatigue caught in the headlights of seemingly irresolvable and petrifying rational paradoxes that block all paths to social justice. Socrates On Trial describing the return of Socrates to the modern city heralds a new education for such a city.
Title: Socrates On Trial
Author(s): Tubbs Nigel (University Of Winchester Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350053717
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 11/30/2021
Category: Politics & Government
