A gem of a book, serious and clever yet funny and playful -- Alec Russell * Financial Times * A powerful antidote to confusion -- Carlos Fraenkel * Times Literary Supplement * Brilliant, compulsive -- Tim Adams * Guardian * Open Socrates quite the most gripping new philosophical book I've read in years teems with insights into our world -- Stuart Jeffries * Spectator * Callard offers us not just a way of thinkingbut a way of life. By her account, Socratess famous method is a way of grappling with some of most troubling why-am-I-here questions we may face, whether in lecture halls or outside of them, in our everyday lives. Not that this is a simple self-help book; consider it more a radical revitalisation of ancient Greek philosophy, demonstrating its eternal relevance * Prospect, Books of the Year * Bracing and brilliant Socrates offers neither miracle cures nor lifestyle hacks: the road to epistemological humility, Callard argues, is long and bumpy. Crucially, its a journey we embark on together * Guardian * Socrates used to say that he knew nothing other than the fact of his own ignorance... Callard invites us to think alongside her. Open Socrates encourages us to recognise how little we know, and to start thinking * The New York Times * Whos our most incisive thinker on free speech? The toast and eventually the scapegoat of 5th century BC Athens. Callard, herself a philosopher, not only explores the career and thought of the great Greek, but asks an even bolder question: what would it mean to live like Socrates today? * Telegraph, Books of the Year * Callard speaks directly to what you might call the Fleabag generation... The fear Fleabag expresses that youre somehow living your life all wrong is shared by millennials and Gen X alike, and Callards Socratic vision offers a way out that is not glib, that requires more effort than journaling or posting reels, but that might help people change their thinking -- Nilanjana Roy * Financial Times * Intellectually challenging and hardly a simple crash course on Socrates, but the payoff is worth the time and effort put into rethinking approaches to philosophy and life * Independent *
