A. G. Mojtabai

On Not Founding Rome

Philosophy

“Without ever raising his voice, the author challenges some of our most cherished assumptions--the centrality of 'the West,' the primacy of Greek thought in the development of Western philosophy, and the identification of heroic virtue with aggression and conquest--among others. Here is philosophy restored to its mission of 'passionate engagements in a controversy that matters.' The fact that Schroeder is a poet as well as a scholar makes this book a pleasure to read and of interest to the general reader as well as to scholars and specialists.”