Agnes Callard: “Socrates wants us to reflect on the oddity of our sexual practices”

Agnes Callard’s new book, Open Socrates , is out now.

She is perhaps better known for her popular essays on topics such as parenting, infidelity and why travel is a poor means of self-discovery.

She was the subject of a 2023 New Yorker profile about her private life.

Callard was diagnosed with autism in her thirties , but has not yet fully discerned what contribution the condition might have made to her philosophy.

In Open Socrates, Callard identifies the political fictions’ of our age as being the “liberalism triad” of freedom of speech, egalitarianism, and the fight for social justice.

Open Socrates is a new book about philosophy and philosophy.

The author of the book argues that romantic love is not an end goal but an aspirational, intellectual pursuit.

She is Socratic ; her second husband is Aristotelian .

She says the question “How big is the size of the project?” sometimes causes conflict within Callard 's marriage.