Plato's Republic

Plato''s Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato''s text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has retranslated the work...