Is Reading Writing?
Un-Keynote Address: The Writing in Digital Environments/Eastern Michigan Un-Conference, October 12, 2015.
Christopher LongOctober 12, 2015
Digital Dialogue 72: Reading Plato
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
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
Birthing the Digital Book
The print edition of my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, has been ready since May, but I asked Cambridge to hold back its release until they completed development of…
Christopher LongNovember 23, 2014
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
Socratic and Platonic Politics
This presentation argues that there is a difference, and a similarity, between the ways Socrates and Plato practice politics. Socratic politics, as depicted in Plato's dialogues, may be characterized as the practice of using spoken…
Christopher LongSeptember 5, 2014
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
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
Setting an Infrastructure for Collaborative Reading
With the spring release of Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, we are working hard to create the infrastructure for the online discussion the enhanced digital book will be designed to…
Christopher LongMarch 11, 2014
Tracing the Contours of the Enhanced Digital Book
Now that Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading is in galley proofs, the contours of the enhanced digital book are beginning to take shape. In order to determine the features of…
Christopher LongJanuary 5, 2014
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
The Evolving Book: Introduction
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
The Politics of Reading … in China
NANJING, China - I must admit, I am a bit uneasy about delivering this talk on Plato and the Politics of Reading here at Nanjing University. You see, I am simply not sure what it…
Christopher LongMay 22, 2013
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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 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 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 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 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 09: Erotic Politics
In episode 9 of the Digital Dialgoue, I am joined by Jill Gordon, who is currently Professor of Philosophy at Colby College, but in just a few days, on September 1st, she will be the Charles A.…
Christopher LongAugust 20, 2009
