It is probably fair to say that Will Altman and I met one another in my book Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy. Perhaps it is strange to think of a book as a place in…
Christopher LongJune 10, 2015
As my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, goes officially into editorial production on the print side of Cambridge University Press, I have started to work with Mike Chaplin on…
Christopher LongAugust 4, 2013
Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the Politics of Reading (forthcoming Cambridge University Press) is an enhanced digital book that attempts to use digital media technology to cultivate the political practice of collaborative reading for…
Christopher LongJuly 19, 2013
There is a difference between the ways Socrates turns those with whom he speaks in Plato's dialogues to consider questions of justice, beauty and the good and the ways Plato's writing turns his readers to…
Christopher LongMarch 15, 2013
A collaborative lecture given by Professor Christopher Long at the University of San Francisco, Thursday, October 25, 2012. Here are the curated tweets and other artifacts related to the lecture and courses I taught designed…
Christopher LongOctober 28, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - To give a lecture on the politics of collaborative reading without inviting one's listeners to become active participants would be a performative contradiction. So, in this lecture, Plato and the Politics…
Christopher LongOctober 21, 2012
Christopher P. Long, "Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal," Ideas y Valores, 61, 149: 2012. This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socratic political speaking and those of Platonic political writing.…
Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2012
Consider this an invitation to continue along a path we have traversed together over the past three years. This path, which began in the wake of my 2009 Summer Faculty Teaching and Learning with Technology Fellowship,…
Christopher LongJune 25, 2012
Christopher P. Long, "Attempting the Political Art," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2012): 153-74. The main thesis of this essay is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the…
Christopher LongMay 28, 2012
FREIBURG, GERMANY - Today at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, I presented a paper entitled The Politics of Finitude in Plato's Phaedo at the 2011 Freiburger Hermeneutisches Kolloquium, whose theme was Hermeneutik (in) der…
Christopher LongJuly 2, 2011
Next week I am giving a lecture on Plato's Gorgias at Boston College for the Boston Area Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy. The title of the lecture is Attempting the Political Art. Prior to the lecture,…
Christopher LongMarch 11, 2011
Long, Christopher P. "Crisis of Community: The Topology of Socratic Politics in the Protagoras," Epoché: a Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15, 2 (2011): 361-377. In Plato's Protagoras Alcibiades plays the role of Hermes,…
Christopher LongMarch 10, 2011
For Digital Dialogue episode 44, I have joined Nicolas Parra, Norman Mora and Sergio Ariza in their home city of Bogotá, Colombia to discuss the seminar we held today on Plato's Apology and a paper…
Christopher LongMarch 1, 2011
Seminar on the Apology Originally uploaded by cplong11 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA - Today I gave a seminar on Plato's Apology at the Universidad de los Andes to graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. The seminar was…
Christopher LongFebruary 25, 2011
Episode 32 of the Digital Dialogue is a recording of my paper on Plato's Protagoras entitled, "Crisis of Community: The Topology of Socratic Politics," delivered at the 10th Annual Independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy…
Christopher LongMay 3, 2010
Ryan Drake, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and graduate of Penn State's Philosophy Department, joins me for Digital Dialogue 31 which focused on the paper I will deliver at the 2010 Ancient Philosophy…
Christopher LongApril 20, 2010
