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<p><P>I cannot imagine that any scholar of Plato is unfamiliar with the work of Alexander Nehamas, but few will know all of these essays. It is a great boon to have them all collected and published under one cover. With the passing of his teacher, Gregory Vlastos, there is no one who combines philosophical acumen with literary sensitivity quite so well.&#151;Allan Silverman, Ohio State University</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>In <I>The Art of Living</i>, an intelligently written and closely argued book, Nehamas (humanities, philosophy, and comparative literature, Princeton; <i>Nietzsche&#58; Life as Literature</i>) begins with a reexamination of Socrates' significance in Western philosophy and then proceeds to show his importance in the writings of Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, in particular with respect to what Nehamas calls the tradition in Western philosophy of writings about the art of living. Nehamas gives the thrust of the book clearly in the introduction&#58; [My] own view, he writes, is that no single mode of life exists that is best for all people and that the philosophical life is only one among many praiseworthy ways of living. I do not urge a `return' to a conce

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Author

Alexander Nehamas

Publisher

L. Mīnāsīyān; HyperJuice; Bloomdido

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781111111113

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Reference, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14