{"product_id":"platos-invisible-cities-adi-ophir-9780415035965","title":"Plato's Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most influential philosophical works in the emergence of Western philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e The author discusses the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eRepublic's\u003c\/em\u003e 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 organisation of civic-space in the Greek \u003cem\u003epolis\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adi Ophir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415035961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415035965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Adi Ophir","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136039432447,"sku":"9780415035965","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2363b087-441b-41b0-b1d0-aa172016020c.jpg?v=1770160105","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/platos-invisible-cities-adi-ophir-9780415035965","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}