Socrates
A Life Worth Living
$39.27
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2022
Summary
A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.
Named a Best Teen & YA Nonfiction title of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews
Socrates - A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644211366 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 164421136X |
| Author: | Devra Lehmann |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 211mm x 148mm |
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Critics Review
“What a welcome book! Socrates-relentless in the pursuit of truth, champion of the Socratic method, fearless prisoner of conscience-went willingly to his death upon the verdict of an Athenian jury. Why? He lived almost 2,500 years ago, and yet the questions he raised and the controversies he generated are disputed as heatedly now as they were then. Lehmann weaves into Socrates’s story the details of daily life and politics, historical context, and scenes from the comic stage that bring passages from Plato’s dialogues to life. The resulting animation of philosophy is as imaginative as it is realistic.” -Debra Nails, professor emerita, Michigan State University, and author of The People of Plato
About The Author
Devra Lehmann
DEVRA LEHMANN is the author of Spinoza- The Outcast Thinker, which won the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. In her 35 years in the classroom, she has taught preschoolers to sound out monosyllables, high schoolers to read Shakespeare, and adults to parse Talmudic passages. She is now at work on a young adult biography of Augustine of Hippo.
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