Socrates On Trial av Nigel (University of Winchester UK) Tubbs

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<b>Named by Rowan Williams as one of his Books of the Year (2021) in the <i>New Statesman.</i></b><i>Socrates On Trial</i> tells of Socrates¿s return to a modern city that is plagued by prejudice, privilege and populism. On resuming his questioning in the <i>agora</i> he is arrested, interrogated by his prosecutors, questioned by his Judge, and confessed to by his inquisitor. On a Festival Day, he explores a new model for the just city --a city based not on mastery but on learning --before offering a new apology to the court that will, once again, decide his fate. This new/old Socrates offers the city a renewed vision of justice by reconceptualizing the meaning and significance of thinking and education. From the force of Socratic questioning, he unfolds a different logic of truth, freedom, and justice. His conversations exert a gravitational force that draws key cultural elements of the city -- property, wealth, money, family, essence, gendered and racialized identities, production, d