No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, “the greatest sickness of the soul.” The Charmides of Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of one of Athens’s most notorious tyrants, Critias, and looks deeply into its dialectical opposite, the soul and cognitive structure of Socrates.

It was inevitable perhaps that Nietzsche's "questionable" and antischolarly book become the subject of scholarship. Nietzsche on Tragedy is the first full length study in English to treat extensively the birth and career of Nietzsche's influential work The Birth of Tragedy. The results are both as Nietzsche would have expected and interesting.