Peter Kalkavage is the author of The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Paul Dry Books, 2007). He has translated the Timaeus and co-translated the Sophist, Phaedo, Statesman, Symposium, and Meno—all for Hackett Publishing Co. Kalkavage has been teaching at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland for over forty-five years, and for the last thirty years, he has been the director of The St. John’s Chorus, which regularly performs sacred music from the Renaissance to the present.
Eric Salem has been teaching at St. John's College in Annapolis since 1990. He has collaborated with Peter Kalkavage and Eva Brann on translations of Plato's Sophist and Phaedo. They are currently working on the Statesman.