The second Socrates trial

The trial of Socrates, which ended with his condemnation to death, is reopened in modern-day Athens. The defenders Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes want the verdict overturned. A French journalist reports exclusively. And what does Socrates himself have to say about it? Alain Badiou is not only one of the most important contemporary philosophers, but also the author of novels and plays. In The Second Trial of Socrates, he brings philosophy itself to the stage in the guise of its most famous representative. In the form of a farce, Badiou deals with the practices of contemporary journalism, stakes out the political scope of philosophy, examines en passant the legitimacy of Platonic and Communist thought, and takes a look at ancient and contemporary Greece. - A tear-jerking philosophical farce, Plato's philosophy a.