George A. Dunn is a special research fellow at the Institute for Globalizing Civilization in China.

Mango Telli teaches philosophy and literature at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.

Introduction

George A. Dunn and Mango Telli

Interview with Laurence Lampert

Conducted by Daniel Blue

Part I: The Classical Background: Plato, Protagoras, Xenophon

Chapter 1: How to Read Plato with Nietzsche's Insights

Liu Xiaofeng

Chapter 2: On the Opening of Plato's Charmides

Peng Lei

Chapter 3: Socrates, Bendis, and Cephalus: Does Plato's Republic Have an Historical Setting?

Christopher Planeaux

Chapter 4: Recovering the Wisdom of Protagoras: A Reinterpretation of the Prometheia Trilogy

Marty Sulek

Chapter 5: Heartache and Heiterkeit in Xenophon's Hiero

Mango Telli

Part II: Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosopher of Our Age

Chapter 6: Zarathustra's Crisis of Redemption

Heinrich Meier

Chapter 7: Nietzsche's Apology: On Reading Ecce Homo, or, How One Becomes What One Is

Leon Harold Craig

Chapter 8: Lange's Consolation Prize: Nietzsche's First Criticisms of Schopenhauer

Daniel Blue

Chapter 9: High Noon on Zarathustra's Mountain: Zarathustra's Midday Vision

Paul Bishop

Chapter 10: Renatured Humans on a Sacred Earth: The Power of Nietzsche's Ecological Thinking

Graham Parkes

Part III: Strauss, Modernity, and Theological-Political Engagements

Chapter 11: From the Death of God to the Death of Man: What Lampert and Nietzsche Can Teach Catholics-and Straussians-about Environmentalism

Peter Minowitz

Chapter 12: The Collapsing Ladder of Degree: René Girard and Leo Strauss on the Origins of Modernity

George A. Dunn