Plato's Republic
Subtitle: a dialogue in 16 chapters
By: Alain Badiou ; translated by Susan Spitzer ; introduction by Kenneth Reinhard
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780231160162; 9780231500654
Work titles: République de Platon
Description: "In this innovative reimagining of Plato's work, Badiou has removed all references specfic to ancient Greek society--from lengthy exchanges about moral courage in archaic poetry to political considerations mainly of interest to the aristocratic elite and has expanded the range of cultural references. Here, philosophy is firing on all cylinders: Socrates and his companions are joined by Beckett, Pessoa, Freud, and Hegel, among others. Together these thinkers demonstrate that true philosophy endures, ready to absorb new horizons without changing its essence."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: conversation in the villa on the harbor (327a-336b); title: Reducing the sophist to silence (336b-357a); title: The young men's and women's pressing questions (357a-368d); title: The origins of society and the state (368d-376c); title: The disciplines of the mind: literature and music (376c-403c); title: The disciplines of the body: nutrition, medicine, and physical education (403c-412c); title: Objective justice (412c-434d); title: Subjective justice (434d-449a); title: Women and families (449a-471c); title: What is a philosopher? (471c-484b); title: Philosophy and politics (484b-502c); title: What is an idea? (502c-521c); title: From mathematics to the dialectic (521c-541b); title: Critique of the four pre-communist systems of government: 1. timocracy and oligarchy (541b-555b); title: Critique of the four pre-communist systems of government: democracy and tyranny (555b-573b); title: Justice and happiness (573b-592b); title: Poetry and thought (592b-608b); title: Epilogue: the mobile eternity of subjects (608b-end); title: Notes.