Plato's Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the RepublicRowman & Littlefield, 1991 - Broj stranica: 211 This book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's Republic, one of the most influential philosophical works in the development 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 justice. The originality of Dr. Ophir lies in the way he reconstructs the Republic's different spatial settings--utopian, mythical, dramatic and discursive--using them as the main thread of his interpretation. Against the background of Plato's critique of the organization of civic-space in the Greek polis, the author relates the spatial settings in the Plato text to each other. This provides a basis for a re-examination of the relationship between philosophy and politics, which Plato's work advocates, and which it actually enacted. |
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GREEK ALL TOO GREEK | 10 |
THE PROBLEM OF JUSTICE RESTATED | 46 |
THE IDEAL CITY | 73 |
FROM DRAMA TO DISCOURSE | 104 |
THE SPACE OF DISCOURSE | 132 |
Notes | 168 |
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Stranica 3 - In fact the people of those days, lacking the wisdom of you young people, were content in their simplicity to listen to trees or rocks, provided these told the C truth. For you apparently it makes a difference who the speaker is, and what country he comes from: you don't merely ask whether what he says is true or false.