Home / Humanities / Philosophy / Plato's Republic

Plato's Republic

AUTHOR
Price
€31.50
€34.90 -10%
Upon request
Dispatched within 15 - 25 days.

Add to wishlist

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has retranslated the work from the original Greek and, by making various changes, adapted it for our times.In this innovative reimagining of a classic text, Badiou has removed all references specific to ancient Greek society, from the endless exchanges about the moral courage of poets to those political considerations that were only of interest to the aristocratic elite. On the other hand, Badiou has expanded the range of cultural references: here philosophy is firing on all cylinders, and Socrates and his companions are joined by Beckett, Pessoa, Freud and Hegel. They demonstrate the enduring nature of true philosophy, always ready to move with the times.Moreover, Badiou the dramatist has made the Socratic dialogue a true oratorial contest: in his version of the Republic, the interlocutors have more in mind than merely agreeing with the Master. They stand up to him, put him on the spot and thereby show thought in motion. Through this work of writing, scholarship and philosophy, we are able, for the first time, to read a version of Plato's text which is alive, stimulating and directly relevant to our world today.

Author: Badiou Alain
Publisher: POLITY PRESS
Pages: 372
ISBN: 9780745662152
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2015
  • Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard
  • Translator’s Preface
  • Author’s Preface to the English Edition
  • Preface
  • Characters
  • Prologue: Conversation in the Villa on the Harbor (327a-336b)
  • 1 Reducing the Sophist to Silence (336b-357a)
  • 2 The Young Men’s and Women’s Pressing Questions (357a-368d)
  • 3 The Origins of Society and the State (368d-376c)
  • 4 The Disciplines of the Mind: Literature and Music (376c-403c)
  • 5 The Disciplines of the Body: Nutrition, Medicine and
  • Physical Education (403c-412c)
  • 6 Objective Justice (412c-434d)
  • 7 Subjective Justice (434d-449a)
  • 8 Women and Families (449a-471c)
  • 9 What is a Philosopher? (471c-484b)
  • 10 Philosophy and Politics (484b-502c)
  • 11 What is an Idea? (502c-521c)
  • 12 From Mathematics to the Dialectic (521c-541b)
  • 13 Critique of the Four Pre-communist Systems of Government:
  • 1. Timocracy and Oligarchy (541b-555b)
  • 14 Critique of the Four Pre-Communist Systems of Government:
  • 2. Democracy and Tyranny (555b-573b)
  • 15 Justice and Happiness (573b-592b)
  • 16 Poetry and Thought (592b-608b)
  • Epilogue: The Mobile Eternity of Subjects (608b-end)
  • Notes
  • Index

Alain Badiou, former Maoist and political activist, is a philosopher, mathematician and novelist. He lives in Paris.

You may also like

Newsletter

Subscribe to the newsletter to be the first to receive our new releases and offers
Your account Your wishlist