Ronna Burger

Education

Biography

Ronna Burger is Professor of Philosophy, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair and Director of Judeo-Christian Studies, Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies, and Director of the Religious Studies Minor. Teaching at Tulane since 1980, she offers seminars almost every semester on particular works of Plato or Aristotle. She has recently been teaching a series of courses, “Bible and Philosophy,” on different topics each term, such as “Women in the Bible,” “The Political World of the Bible,” or “The Problem of Evil.”

Books and Monographs:

• On Plato's Euthyphro (Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, 2015)
• Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics. (Chicago , 2008)
• The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth. (Yale, 1984. Reprinted, St. Augustine's Press 1999; revised edition forthcoming)
• Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing (Alabama, 1980)
• Co-editor, The Eccentric Core: the Thought of Seth Benardete (St. Augustine's Press, 2018)
• Co-editor, The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete (St. Augustine's Press, 2012)
• Editor, Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete (Chicago, 2002)
• Co-editor, The Argument of the Action (Chicago, 2000)

Selected Articles:

• "The Erotic and the Thumotic Soul," in The Eccentric Core (St. Augustine's Press, 2018)
• “Woman and Nature: the Female Drama of the Book of Genesis,” Athens, Arden, Jerusalem (Lexington Books, 2017)
• “Imitation and Representation: Mimesis in Aristotle’s Poetics,” Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2014)
• “Socrates’ Odyssean Return: on Plato’s Charmides,” in Strange Fellows: Socratic Philosophy and its Others (Lexington Books, 2013, reprinted 2015)
• "Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed I.2,” in Political Philosophy Cross-Examined (Palgrave Macmillan. 2013)

Recent Papers Presented:

• “The Fall from our Ancient Nature: Plato’s Aristophanic Speech on Eros and the Biblical Story of Adam and Eve,” Assumption College; Harvard Political Theory Colloquium, March 2018
• “Aristotle on Friendship, Philosophy, and the Metaphysics of Eros,” Keynote Speaker, Ancient Philosophy Society, April 2017.

Interests

• Plato and Aristotle
• Maimonides
• Bible and Philosophy