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Contents 7 Preface 9 Introduction: Genre as a Tool of Philosophical Interpretation and Analysis 13 Platonic Preludes 39 Plato's Use of the Dialogue Form: Skepticism and Insemination 41 Some Cautionary Remarks on Platonic Dialogue 53 Beyond Dialogue 61 The Life of Aesop: Rhetoric and the Philosophical Life 63 From Parmenides to Anselm: Philosophy as Prayer 77 A Compilation of Arguments: The SkepticÌs Medicine Chest 90 Aristotle through the Looking Glass: Aquinas as a Historian of Philosophy 104 Aquinas's Disputational Format and the Community of Philosophy 115 Machiavelli's Prince: The Speculum Principis Genre Turned Upside Down 126 A Rhapsody Void of Order or Method: Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees 142 Why Nietzsche Tries to Kill Socrates in The Birth of Tragedy 155 The Lectures of J. L. Austin: Doing Sensible Things with Words 170 Speculating about Weird Worlds: Philosophy as Science Fiction 188 Genealogy, Narrative, and Collective Self- Examination in Discipline and Punish 201 Epilogue 217 The Ethics of Style in Philosophical Discourse 219 Bibliography 235 Contributors 249 Index 253

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Author

Lavery, Jonathan; Groarke, Louis;

Publisher

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838642603

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Literary Fiction