Stanley Rosen was the Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy and professor emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of The Language of Love: An interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus, Platonic Productions: Theme and Variations The Gilson Lectures, Essays in Philosophy: Modern, Essays in Philosophy: Ancient, Metaphysics in Ordinary Language, Plato's Statesman: The Web of Politics, The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger, Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Moderninity, G.F.W. Hegel: An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom, The Limits of Analysis, Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay, Plato's Sophist: The Drama of Original and Image, and Plato's Symposium (from St. Augustine's Press).