Plato's invisible cities : discourse and power in the Republic /

Plato's invisible cities : discourse and power in the Republic /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ophir, Adi.
Imprint:	London : Routledge, 1991.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 211 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Plato. -- Republic. Republic (Plato) Political science -- Philosophy. Political science -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11116992

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ISBN:	0203007344 9780203007341 9781134959747 1134959745 9781134959693 1134959699 9781134959730 1134959737 9780415035965 0415035961 9780415755337 0415755336
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation This book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's Republic, one of the most influential philosophical works in the emergence of Western philosophy. The author discusses the Republic in terms of discursive events and political acts. Plato's act is placed in the context of a politico-discursive crisis in Athens at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B.C that gave rise to the dialogue's primary question, that of justice. The originality of Dr. Ophir lies in the way he reconstructs the Republic's different spatial settings - utopian, mythical, dramatic and discursive - using them as the main thread of his interpretation. Against the background of Plato's critique of the organisation of civic-space in the Greek polis, the author relates the spatial settings in the Plato text to each other. This provides a basis for a re-examination of the relationship between philosophy and politics, which Plato's work advocates, and which it actually enacted.
Other form:	Print version: Ophir, Adi. Plato's invisible cities. London : Routledge, 1991 0415035961

Table of Contents:

1. Greek, all too Greek
2. The problem of justice restated
3. The ideal city
4. From drama to discourse
5. The space of discourse.