Late Life with Socrates

Written towards the end of her ninety-fourth year, Eva Brann’s essay Late Life with Socrates is her musing on “late life” and on the philosopher. She put her thoughts down as they came, in the presence of the Socrates she had come to know over her more than sixty years reading the dialogues in which Plato presents him to his readers. She intended this twenty-five thousand word self-conversation as a preface to a full-len...