Preface Foreword Acknowledgements Part 1: The Retrial of Socrates Books 1-6 Part 2: Politeia - City Matters Books 7-17 Part 3: The Apology Book 18 The Verdict
A lively and politicised reworking of Plato's Republic for the contemporary world.
Nigel Tubbs is Professor of Philosophical and Educational Thought, University of Winchester, UK. He is the author of seven titles on philosophy and education.
Socrates on Trial makes us look at our world in new ways, urges us
to rethink education, and is a much-needed plea for a Socratic
uprising in education. Consumerism, screen-addiction, the
exploitation of the earth resources, racial injustices – Tubbs
argues that we cannot afford to remain in the world of shadows, and
calls for an education that is profoundly self-critical and
philosophical. In holding up a mirror, the book benefits and
inspires all of us.
*Emma Cohen de Lara, Senior Lecturer In Political Theory, Amsterdam
University College, The Netherlands*
What if Socrates were to return today, and insist again on asking
uncomfortable questions of the propertied and the powerful? Tubbs’s
reply in this compelling philosophical fable is as fascinating and
as shocking as its stylistic inspiration in Dostoyevsky’s Grand
Inquisitor. His Socrates discovers that the examined life is as
unwelcome today as it was in ancient Athens, that property and
power remain as allergic to questioning as then and, in a fatal
ironic twist worthy of its protagonist, that it is now he who must
defend himself against the failure of his efforts to lead others
out of the cave. Tubbs’s Socrates, questioning our culture and his
own contribution to it, learns that, although he must fail again,
this time at least he can fail better.
*Howard Caygill, Professor of Philosophy, CRMEP, Kingston
University, UK*
This book is quite extraordinary at the literary as well as the
philosophical level. A tour de force.
*Josh Cohen, Professor of Modern Literary Theory, Goldsmiths,
University of London, UK*
In examining the divided life of our modern universities and
politics, this book brings hope for the future: a passion we might
all share, experience and thoughtfully act upon.
*J. Scott Lee, Former Executive Director, Association for Core
Texts and Courses, USA*
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