Rereading Plato's Republic - (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) by Mary Margaret McCabe & Simon Trépanier (Hardcover)

About the Book

Examines the subject matter of the Republic and the full internal responsion of its parts.

Book Synopsis

Plato's Republic is the master's masterpiece; but how to go about interpreting it is still disputed. Indeed, it may be a masterpiece just because how to understand it is fiercely controversial. This collection of 24 original essays by an international mix of junior and senior scholars reconsiders the Republic as a written text and rethinks its philosophical legacy. The volume seeks to explore how the Republic goes about doing philosophy with its reader without importing assumptions as to what counts as a philosophy and what does not, what should be kept and what discarded. The working assumption for uniting these different aspects is that 'Plato writes nothing in vain'. To that end, much can be learned by studying how its sections can take on different meanings between a first and subsequent re-reading.

Review Quotes

The book makes a worthy addition to the Leventis Studies series and will occupy a distinctive place on the rather crowded landscape of secondary literature on the Republic.--Stephen Halliwell, University of St Andrews

This is an excellent collection of essays on the Republic. It has emerged from a conference bringing together the results of a 10-year series of workshops on the different books. The collection is more unified than many which emerge from conferences as the contributors have all made a joint effort to build on the previous decade of careful readings and translations.--Julia Annas, University of Arizona