The Republic of Plato
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Republic of Plato
By (Author) Allan Bloom
By (author) Adam Kirsch
Basic Books
Basic Books
22nd November 2016
22nd November 2016
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
321.07
Physical Properties
Paperback
528
Width 155mm, Height 233mm, Spine 35mm
570g
Description
The best available English translation.... [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.' , American Political Science Review
Reviews
"The best available English translation....It compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote."--American Political Science Review
Author Bio
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.
