Reexamining Socrates in the Apology

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments We would like to thank the contributors to this volume, first for making their excellent work available to us for inclusion in it, and second for their patience during what turned out to be an unusually long process of bringing the manuscript to publication. In our view, the essays in this collection are highly cohesive, and we are very pleased to be able to present them together as a collective statement about the reading of Plato’s Apology of Socrates, the paradigmatic text of our philosophical tradition. We would also specially like to thank Bernard Freydberg, whose essay “Retracing Homer and Aristophanes” was the original inspiration for this volume; James Crooks, whose cultivation of Plato studies (and related philosophical activities) at Bishop’s University has contributed powerfully to the development of a community of philosophical researchers and has nurtured the growth of much original philosophy; and John Sallis, whose trace shines powerfully through much of the work in this volume by virtue of his direct or indirect teaching. We also thank the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Windsor and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph for making the resources available to us that allowed for the publication of this volume. And thanks, finally, to Northwestern University Press for its role in making original philosophical research—especially research inspired by the European philosophical tradition—available to the North American academic community. ...