Plato's Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the Republic

by Adi Ophir

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415035961
• ISBN13: 9780415035965
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"