Catalin Partenie is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National School of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest. Previously a fellow of the University of Quebec at Montreal, he has also taught at Concordia University in Montreal and held visiting research positions at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hastings Center in New York, and the British School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he was an Onassis Fellow. He has translated into Romanian Plato’s Timaeus (in collaboration), Critias, and Menexenus, and is co-editor of Plato’s Complete Works in Romanian (Humanitas). He has also co-edited (with Tom Rockmore) Heidegger and Plato (Northwestern University Press).