Columbia University Press, with Ali Aslam and David W. McIvor
A vision of ecological and participatory democracy for a time of crisis. Drawing on stories of shared agency and egalitarian organization from ancient Mesopotamia and the precolonial Americas to present-day movements, the book treats myth and ritual as working resources for politics.
“A bracing study, always alert to how earthborn we are.”William E. Connolly
University of Chicago Press
Reads the Histories for a vision of earthly flourishing: living well within an order not entirely of your own making. The customs and laws Herodotus called nomoi emerge as the means by which communities adapt, cooperate and survive in a world in flux.
“Schlosser is a master at making old texts relevant to the new world.”Susan McWilliams Barndt, Pomona College
Buy from University of Chicago Press: Herodotus in the Anthropocene
Cambridge University Press
Reconstructs Socrates' practice of philosophy in democratic Athens to offer a stranger, less familiar Socrates for present-day debates, in conversation with two movements inspired by him: the Clemente Courses in the Humanities and the Socrates Cafés.
Buy from Cambridge University Press: What Would Socrates Do?