Title: Res Publica :
Authors: Zöller, Günter,; Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Date: 2015
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Physical description: xi, 118 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: "In Res Publica, Günter Zöller offers a concise and perceptive analysis of the influence that Plato's Republic had on the political thought of three leading German philosophers rarely discussed together -- Kant, Hegel, and Fichte. He investigates how these three thinkers engaged with one of the founding texts of Western political philosophy to offer their particular interpretations of the forms and norms of the political organization known as the "commonwealth" or res publica. Professor Zöller contextualizes the encounter between an ancient thinker and his modern descendants to demonstrate how the ongoing dialogue between ancient republican thought and nineteenth-century German Idealism extends to the modern era."--Publisher's website.
Contents: The polity: Plato and the republican legacy -- The ideal republic: Kant and Plato -- The real republic: Hegel and Plato -- The people's republic: Fichte and Plato.
Notes: "The Tang Chun-I lecture for 2012." Based on a public lecture and faculty seminar delivered by the author as the seventeenth holder of the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship in Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in the fall of 2012.
Subject headings (LCSH): Philosophy, German--18th century.; Philosophy, German--19th century.; Plato. Republic.