Platonic Political Art A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy

Name: Platonic Political Art A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy
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ISBN: 9780271020754

ISBN-10: 027102075X

ISBN-13: 9780271020754

Edition: 2001

Authors: John R. Wallach

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Book details

List price: $103.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.804



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Settings



Interpreting Plato Politically



Practical Obstacles: Moving from Here to Antiquity



Interpretive Obstacles



Discursive Horizons: Critical Historicism



Historicizing the Platonic Political Art



The Historicity of Plato's Socratic Problem



The Practical Context



The Discursive Context



The Textual Context



The Historical Socrates and the Platonic Political Art



Interpretations



The Political Art in Aporetic Dialogues, or Plato's Socratic Problem Amid Athenian Conventions



Conceptual Tools



Liminal Relations of Virtue and the Political Art



Aporetic Treatments of the Political Art



The Constitution of Justice: The Political Art in Plato's Republic



The Republic as Original Political Theory



Techne and Justice



Platonic Justice and Democracy



Logos and Ergon



The Political Art as Practical Rule



Political Leadership: On Plato's Statesman



Constitutional Laws: On Plato's Laws



An Appropriation



The Platonic Political Art and Postliberal Democracy



Dehistoricizing and Rehistoricizing Plato



Plato in Contemporary Political Theory



Plato and Critical Citizenship Today


Bibliography


Index