PUBLICATIONS
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
Books
Selected Articles
Glaucon's Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato's Republic. Forthcoming, Paul Dry Books, 2018.
Plato and the Talmud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; paperback, 2013.
Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; paperback, 2008.
The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates’ Philosophic Trial. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy. New York: Twayne Publishers (MacMillan), 1993; reissued by Paul Dry Books, 2004.
A Long Way Home: The Story of a Jewish Youth, 1939-1948. Bob Golan. Edited by Jacob Howland. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.
“A Shimmering Socrates: Philosophy and Poetry in Kierkegaard’s Platonic Authorship,” in A Companion to Kierkegaard. Ed. Jon Stewart. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
“Fear and Trembling’s ‘Attunement’ as Midrash,” in Cambridge Critical Guide to Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. Ed. Daniel Conway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“Chicago Love Letters.” Commentary, Oct. 2015, 42-47.
“Cosmos and Philosophy in Plato and the Bible.” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 13. 3 (2015): 669–692.
“Lessing and Socrates in Postscript.” In Cambridge Guide to Kierkegaard’s Postscript. Ed. Rick Furtak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“Plato’s Apology as Tragedy.” Review of Politics 70.4 (2008), 519-546.
“Partisanship and the Work of Philosophy in Plato’s Timaeus.” Review of Politics 69.1 (2007), 1-27.
“Plato’s Reply to Lysias: Republic 1 and 2 and Against Eratosthenes.” American Journal of Philology 125.2 (2004), 179-208.
“Aristotle’s Great-Souled Man.” Review of Politics 64.1 (Winter 2002), 27-56.
“Xenophon’s Philosophic Odyssey: On the Anabasis and Plato’s Republic.” American Political Science Review 94.4 (December, 2000), 875-889.
“The Republic’s Third Wave and the Paradox of Political Philosophy.” Review of Metaphysics 51.3 (March, 1998), 633-657.
“Re-reading Plato: The Problem of Platonic Chronology.” Phoenix 45.3 (1991): 189-214.