In Plato's Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and political implications of Plato's presentation of Socrates' self-disclosive speech in four dialogues: Theaetetus, Symposium, Apology, and Phaedo. Schultz argues that these moments of Socratic self-disclosure show that Plato's presentation of "Socrates the narrator" is much more pervasive than the secondary literature typically acknowledges. Despite the pervasive appearance of a Socrates who describes his own experience throughout the dialogues, Socratic autobiographical self-disclosure has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Plato's use of narrative, particularly his trope of "Socrates the narrator," is often subsumed into discussions of the dramatic nature of the dialogues more generally rather than studied in its own right. Schultz shows how these carefully crafted narrative remarks add to the richness and profundity of the Platonic texts on multiple levels. To illustrate how these embedded Socratic narratives contribute to the portrait of Socrates as a public philosopher in Plato's dialogues, the author also examines Socratic self-disclosive practices in the works of bell hooks, Kathy Khang, and Ta-Neishi Coates, and even practices the art of Socratic self-disclosure herself.

Anne-Marie Schultz is an associate professor at Baylor University and director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, an alternative core humanities program. She received a doctorate from Penn State in 1993 and is a summa cum laude graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio. In addition to her deep and abiding interest in the literary dimensions of Plato's dialogues, her areas of scholarly exploration include Augustine, Nietzsche, feminism popular culture, issues philosophical pedagogy and contemporary hatha yoga. She is also a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and teaches regularly in Austin, TX. In her free time, she enjoys art collecting, travelling with her husband, Jeff, and playing with her Golden Retriever, Milo.