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    Product details:

    • Publisher Edinburgh University Press
    • Date of Publication 31 May 2025
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9781399546836
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 5 black & white tables
    • 700

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    Short description:

    Examines the subject matter of the Republic and the full internal responsion of its parts.

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    Long description:

    Plato?s Republic is the master?s masterpiece; but how to go about interpreting it is still disputed. Indeed, it may be a masterpiece just because how to understand it is fiercely controversial. This collection of 24 original essays by an international mix of junior and senior scholars reconsiders the Republic as a written text and rethinks its philosophical legacy. The volume seeks to explore how the Republic goes about doing philosophy with its reader without importing assumptions as to what counts as a philosophy and what does not, what should be kept and what discarded. The working assumption for uniting these different aspects is that 'Plato writes nothing in vain'. To that end, much can be learned by studying how its sections can take on different meanings between a first and subsequent re-reading.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Tables
    Editors' Preface
    Notes on Contributors

    Introduction

    Part I. Rereading

    1. Cephalus, pat?r tou logou.
    Tad Brennan
    2. Running before You Can’t Walk: Some Thoughts about Old Age and Epistemic Progress on Rereading the Republic
    Saloni M. de Souza
    3. Justice in Simpler Times
    Timothy Clarke
    4. Loving Learning: Plato’s Philosophical Dogs and the Education of the Guardians
    Allison Pi?eros Glasscock
    5. Nature in Politics and Moral Psychology
    Alex G. Long
    6. From the Object to the Subject: Plato’s Version of the Principle of Non-Contradiction in Republic 4
    Barbara M. Sattler
    7. Dolphins and Dialectic
    Raphael Woolf
    8. The Cave before Plato
    Simon Trépanier
    9. Reflecting on Images in Plato’s Republic
    Tamsin de Waal
    10. A New Role for the Philosopher Rulers: Situating 519c-521d in Its Argumentative Context
    Merrick Anderson
    11. Dialectic in the Cave
    Hugh Benson
    12. Plato’s Neglected Critiques of Democratic Cities in Republic 8 and 9: Inside and Outside the Narrative of Representative Fathers and Sons
    Melissa Lane
    13. The Tyrant and the Failure of Philia: Rereading the Account of the Tyrannical Character
    Margaret Hampson
    14. Pain and Perspective in Republic 9
    Katharine R. O’Reilly
    15. ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’: Pleasure and Happiness in Plato's Republic
    Joachim Aufderheide
    16. Mimesis, Art and the Metaphysics of Appearances in Republic 10
    Fiona Leigh
    17. ‘Virtue has no master’
    Ursula Coope

    Part II. Images, Education and the Good

    18. Imagery, Utopia and Plato’s Republic
    Rachel Barney
    19. Why the Rulers’ Mathematical Education?
    Sarah Broadie
    20. Glaucon, Gyges and the Good
    Mary Margaret McCabe
    21. The Good Reread: A Reply to MM
    Christopher Rowe
    22. Breaking the Frame: Justice and Politics Inside and Outside the Republic’s City
    Verity Harte
    23. Summing Up: ‘the dog that didn’t bark’
    Brad Inwood

    Bibliography
    Index
    Index locorum

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