TY - BOOK ID - 78072385 TI - Plato's invisible cities PY - 1991 SN - 1280186585 0203007344 9780203007341 9781134959747 1134959745 9781134959693 1134959699 9781134959730 1134959737 9780415035965 0415035961 9780415755337 0415755336 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Political science KW - Political philosophy KW - Philosophy. KW - Plato. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072385 AB - This book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's Republic, one of the most influential philosophical works in the emergence of Western philosophy. The author discusses the Republic in terms of discursive events and political acts. Plato's act is placed in the context of a politico-discursive crisis in Athens at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B.C that gave rise to the dialogue's primary question, that of justice. The originality of Dr. Ophir lies in the way he reconstructs the Republic's different spatial settings - utopia ER -