French Literature Reviews - 2026

W. O. Kohan, Socrates - Teaching, That Paradox
Philosophy, Anthropology and Ideas

Walter Omar Kohan, Socrates - Teaching, That Paradox

Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.

158 p.

EAN 9782343013091

16.00 EUR

Publisher's Overview:

This book offers a philosophical problematization of an educational issue through the foundational and paradigmatic figure of Socrates. Accordingly, this study draws on several philosophical interpretations of Socrates—primarily those of Kierkegaard, Foucault, Nietzsche, Rancière, and Derrida—to think philosophically about a problem inherent in educational practice.

Walter Omar Kohan is a professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

The relationship between philosophical inquiry and pedagogy has long occupied thinkers across various traditions, using figures like Socrates to interrogate the aims and methods of teaching. Readers interested in philosophy, education and the interpretations of Socrates by thinkers such as Foucault and Derrida may find this study relevant to their inquiries.