Argues that Socrates’ fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.

Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato.

Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.

Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.

Explores Thales’s speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams.

A literary and historical analysis of the structure and meaning of recurrent symbols, images, and actions employed in Plato’s dialogues.

Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectural virtue with morality.

A reading of the death of Socrates as a self-sacrifice, with implications for ideas about suffering, wisdom, and the soul’s relationship to the body.

Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.

Discusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.

Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato's dialogues.

Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world.

An original and insightful account of nature and our place in it from one of France's preeminent historians of philosophy.

Examines the political dimensions of Aristophanes’ comic poetry.

A study of Lacan’s engagement with the Western philosophical traditions of ethical and political thought in his seventh seminar and later work.

Collected writings on Plato’s unwritten teachings.

A provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates.

The first exhaustive study of Aristotle's concept of chance.

An urgent, contemporary defense of Aristotle

Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.

Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.

Explores the connections between sexual difference and political structure in ancient Greek tragedy.

Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.

A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.

Examines the influence of Aristotle and Kant on the nineteenth-century social theory of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber.