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Baracchi shows that the Republic is concerned throughout with the complex but intertwined issues of life and war, locating the site of this tangled web of growth and destruction in the mythical dimension of the Platonic city.
List of contents
Preliminary:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Proleptikon
First Part: "Old women telling tales"(350 e): The City in View, the City
Envisioned
I. On Regeneration
Going Down, Or: In the Degenerating City
Figures of Corruption, Or: Against the Degenerating City
Regeneration, Or: Away from the City
II. The Law of (Re)production
The Magnified Letters of Justice
The Circle of Growth
Of Life: The Dictation of the Muses
Dia-logical Necessity
Of Justice without Idea
Second Part: "A tale was saved and not lost" (621 b): Vision at the End of the Visible
III. Preliminary Remarks in a Rhapsodic Form
Giving Back
Of Poets and Distance
Healing from Oblivion
The Poet and Other Voices
Apologa: The Ethos of Poesis
IV. War
Passing Places
The Feast of War
Moving Dialogue
Socrates' Third Way
Socrates contra Socratem
War and Greatness
V. Vision
Beyond the Gateway
Metax
Souls in a Meadow
The Image of the Law
The Choice of the Daimon
Having Loved Sopha
VI. (Re)birth
Un-ending
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Claudia Baracchi is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The New School. Her articles on philosophy, art, and literary theory have appeared in numerous journals in English and Italian.
Summary
A sensitive and original reading of Plato's Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history.
