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Plato as Critical Theorist

Jonny Thakkar

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$43.50 • £34.95 • €39.00

ISBN 9780674971769

Publication Date: 05/14/2018

392 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Preface
Introduction
1. What Is Philosophy For?
2. Why Philosophers Should Rule
3. The Beautiful City
4. Plato and Athens
5. Historical Possibility
6. Philosopher-Citizens
7. Moneymaking and Malfunction
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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At the Chronicle of Higher Education, read Jonny Thakkar on what Plato would have thought of today’s debates around “political correctness” versus freedom of speech
Read an interview with Thakkar at BLARB, the blog of the Los Angeles Review of Books, on the intricacies of ideal theory
Visit Jonny Thakkar’s website

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