The Republic of Plato

by Plato

Overview

The most important of the Socratic dialogues, the Republic is concerned with the construction of an ideal commonwealth and thus wins its place as the earliest of utopias.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781720412694
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/17/2018
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Allan Bloom, 1930-1992, was a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including the number one bestseller The Closing of the American Mind.

Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic whose work appears regularly in the New York Review of Books, New Yorker, Tablet, and other publications. The author of three books of poems and several books of criticism and biography, Kirsch lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

"The best available English translation....It compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote."—American Political Science Review

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