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Book SynopsisPlato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Kenneth Reinhard
Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface to the English Edition
Preface
Characters
Prologue: Conversation in the Villa on the Harbor (327a-336b)
1 Reducing the Sophist to Silence (336b-357a)
2 The Young Men’s and Women’s Pressing Questions (357a-368d)
3 The Origins of Society and the State (368d-376c)
4 The Disciplines of the Mind: Literature and Music (376c-403c)
5 The Disciplines of the Body: Nutrition, Medicine and
Physical Education (403c-412c)
6 Objective Justice (412c-434d)
7 Subjective Justice (434d-449a)
8 Women and Families (449a-471c)
9 What is a Philosopher? (471c-484b)
10 Philosophy and Politics (484b-502c)
11 What is an Idea? (502c-521c)
12 From Mathematics to the Dialectic (521c-541b)
13 Critique of the Four Pre-communist Systems of Government:
1. Timocracy and Oligarchy (541b-555b)
14 Critique of the Four Pre-Communist Systems of Government:
2. Democracy and Tyranny (555b-573b)
15 Justice and Happiness (573b-592b)
16 Poetry and Thought (592b-608b)
Epilogue: The Mobile Eternity of Subjects (608b-end)
Notes
Index
