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Reiner Schürmann: Care of Death

“Care of Death: On the Teaching of Reiner Schürmann.” Philosophy Today, January 31, 2017. doi:10.5840/philtoday201713141. A homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As…

Christopher LongMarch 11, 2017

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

Tracking Plato’s Dogs

“Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life Among the Wolves and Dogs of Plato’s Republic.” In Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Snakes, Stingrays, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts, edited by Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas,…

Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2015

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 71: Plato’s Rhetoric

In episode 71 we are joined by John Jasso, Assistant Professor of English at Penn State. Our conversation focuses on what Jasso calls Plato’s Psychagogic Rhetoric, a phrase that suggests the manner in which Plato…

Christopher LongNovember 9, 2014

Presentation: Academic Vita

Philosophy and the Networked Public

Philosophy has always been a public activity, although its relationship with the public and its own public nature have long been fraught with anxiety for philosophy and the public both. At this year’s Society for…

Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Adventures in Open Access: Plato's Dogs, Unleashed

It was paragraph three, section b) of the Contributor Publishing Agreement from Indiana University Press that gave me pause. In it I read that I would not be permitted to post the final published version…

Christopher LongAugust 13, 2014

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 69: Philosophical Imagination

Marina McCoy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, joins me for episode 69 in which we discuss Plato and the philosophical imagination. Marina is a long time guest of the Digital Dialogue, appearing previously…

Christopher LongJanuary 10, 2014

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 64: Writing Philosophy

John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, joins me to discuss his current book project on philosophical writing. In it, John investigates various forms of philosophical writing, developing what he calls a "descriptive phenomenology…

Christopher LongSeptember 28, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Socrates, Plato and Digital Scholarship at #ECDS

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship asked me to give a version of the presentation at gave at #DH2013 last summer entitled eBook as Ecosystem of Digital Scholarship Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the…

Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Reading the Death of Socrates

Returning to Wittenberg for the first time since graduating in 1991, I gave an interactive, live-tweeted, lecture on Reading the Death of Socrates. The paper argues that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue,…

Christopher LongSeptember 19, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

eBook as Ecosystem of Scholarly Communication

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

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 60: Socratic Narrative

Anne-Marie Schultz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core at Baylor University, joins me at the 13th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society She is author of many articles in Ancient Greek…

Christopher LongApril 7, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Public Philosophy in Digital Dialogue

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

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 57: The Politics of Reading

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

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Plato and the Politics of Reading

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

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal

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

Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Book As Ecosystem of Scholarly Dialogue

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

Articles Publication: Journal Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Attempting the Political Art

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

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 54: Plato’s Philosophers

For episode 54 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined via Skype by Catherine Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Zuckert is the author of many…

Christopher LongMarch 3, 2012

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 53: Pindar and the Phaedrus

Christopher Moore joins me for Digital Dialogue, episode 53. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and is currently Lecturer in Philosophy and Classics at Penn State. His areas of specialization…

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2012

Christopher Long and Sarah Brill for Digital Dialogue

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 52: Politics and the Phaedo

Episode 52 of the Digital Dialogue was recorded at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. I was joined by Sara Brill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and…

Christopher LongNovember 7, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Platonic Writing and the Practice of Death

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

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

BACAP Presentation: Attempting the Political Art

BOSTON, MA - The main thesis of the paper I delivered today at the Boston Area Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the practice of Platonic political writing…

Christopher LongMarch 17, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Seminar: Academic Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Socrates, Plato and the Politics of Truth

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

Looking up the columns at the Supreme Court building

Articles Publication: Journal Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Crisis of Community

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

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 44: The Apology

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

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Seminar on the Apology in Bogotá

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

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 42: Remembering

Walter Brogan, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, editor of Epoché: Journal for the History of Philosophy and a founding member of the Ancient Philosophy Society joins me for episode 42 of the Digital Dialogue.…

Christopher LongDecember 20, 2010

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 32: Crisis of Community

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

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 15: Plato’s Analogical Thinking

Holly Moore, who defended her dissertation, entitled "Plato's Analogical Thought" at DePaul University on October 12th, 2009, joins me for episode 15 of the Digital Dialogue. Dr. Moore is a graduate of Penn State's Undergraduate…

Christopher LongOctober 26, 2009

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 13: Psychology and Politics

Sara Brill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, joins me for episode 13 of the Digital Dialogue. Sara graduated from the Philosophy Department here at Penn State in 2004, where she wrote her dissertation…

Christopher LongSeptember 29, 2009

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 06: Attentive Listening

In episode six of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Marina McCoy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and longstanding member of the Ancient Philosophy Society. Marina has written extensively on Plato, focusing…

Christopher LongJuly 28, 2009

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