The Art of Living

In this wide-ranging, brilliantly written account, Nehamas provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.

Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter II Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Silence
Platonic Irony: Author and Audience	p. 19
Socratic Irony: Character and Interlocutors	p. 46
Socratic Irony: Character and Author	p. 70
Voices
A Face for Socrates' Reason: Montaigne's "Of physiognomy"	p. 101
A Reason for Socrates' Face: Nietzsche on "The Problem of Socrates"	p. 128
A Fare for Socrates' Reason: Foucault on the Care of the Self	p. 157
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 271
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