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Socratic and Platonic Politics The Long Road

Plato's Dialogues in Digital

There is nothing more fun to teach than Plato's dialogues. Whether they love him or hate him, the figure of Socrates Plato draws in his dialogues move students to think more deeply about their relationships…

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2015

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

Matthew Paris: Plato and Socrates via fineartamerica.com

Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

Cover Art: Matthew Paris's Plato and Socrates

This drawing from Mathew Paris (1217-1259), made famous more recently by Derrida's disquisition on it in The Postcard, appears in a 13th century manuscript that contains a series of fortune-telling tracts. Now, with the generous…

Christopher LongApril 20, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Keynote Address: Socrates and the Politics of Finitude at #PCAP14

In this interactive keynote address to the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy hosted by Villanova University, I argue that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue. We tweeted the keynote and the entire PCAP…

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2014

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

The Liberal Arts The Long Road

Music, Philosophy and the Liberal Arts

On the day he was to die, we find Socrates writing poetry. This is very strange because Socrates generally chose not to write, opting instead to engage in dialogue with those he encountered in and…

Christopher LongSeptember 9, 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 58: Love of the World

For episode 58 of the Digital Dialogue I am joined at the 51st annual meeting of SPEP in Rochester, NY by Silvia Benso. She is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she…

Christopher LongNovember 8, 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

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

"The Politics of Truth" at University of Kansas

LAWRENCE, KS - The paper I presented here today, entitled The Politics of Truth, argued that Socratic politics is a matter of speaking truth with a concern for justice and the good. I suggested further…

Christopher LongApril 25, 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

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 36: Plutarch and Socrates

Mark Shifmann joins me to discuss Plutarch's understanding of the practice of Socratic philosophy as animated by erotic wisdom. Plutarch himself focused more on Socratic practice than on attempting to articulate a systematic account of…

Christopher LongJune 29, 2010

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 35: Socratic Strangeness

Sean Kirkland joins me for Digital Dialogue episode 35 to joins me today to talk about a book project he is completing entitled Ontology and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues. Our discussion focuses on the…

Christopher LongJune 15, 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 31: Shame and Justice

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

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 22: Transformative Dialogue

A group of students from my Philosophy 200, Ancient Greek Philosophy, course join me for episode 22 of the Digital Dialogue. Drew Bullard, Jordan Sanford, Cody Yashinsky, Anthony Zirpoli, Tony Arnold, Pam Doran and Joni…

Christopher LongDecember 15, 2009

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 12: Eros and Democracy

Digital Dialogue 12 is with Mark Munn who is Professor of Ancient Greek History, Greek Archaeology, and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies here at Penn State. We focus on the relationship between eros and democracy…

Christopher LongSeptember 19, 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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