Now out in Geist 111: a clutch of poems inspired by the “Socrates Questions Agathon” speech in Plato’s Symposium. You can read the poems here. Versions will be included in Uninvited: Talking Back To Plato (forthcoming as a book! stay tuned…), a collaborative project with Carrie Jenkins that you can read about in a little piece we wrote for The Philosophers’ Magazine. Enjoy! Continue reading Sappho Questions Medusa: Poems
Happy holidays! I’ve just added a page for a project that I’m very, very excited about. Carrie Jenkins and I are writing a book together, reimagining Plato’s Symposium in a hybrid poetry/fiction format. You’ll find our own versions of the speeches of the text – of Phaedrus, of Aristophanes, of Diotima, etc – as inspired by Tarot cards, outer space, a love affair between Sappho and Medusa, and much … Continue reading Symposium, Reimagined
Carrie Jenkins’ new book is a model for what public philosophy can be. Beautifully written, thoughtful, and compellingly and carefully argued, What Love Is: And What it Could Be (Basic Books, 2017) invites us to think openly and critically about romantic love: what it is, what it could be, and why it is crucial for us to ask these questions and come to our own answers. … Continue reading What Love Is: An Interview
