{"product_id":"platos-republic-retold-hardcover","title":"Plato's Republic Retold - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKenneth Quandt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e Plato's Republic\u003c\/em\u003e Socrates retells a life-changing conversation he had with none other than the author's two older brothers. Here, as elsewhere, he carefully listens to what his interlocutors say but also to what they do not say. The gap between these is what motivates his penetrating and challenging questions, and confers upon both questions and answers their dramatic force and significance: talk becomes action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile translations of Plato can fail to bring across this existential motive, a true retelling will not. Plato's greatness consists exactly in his ability to depict people thinking and talking within their own horizons, enabling us, in turn, to witness how Socrates listens to them, and for the first time ever to relive this revolutionary conversation in all its greatness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conversation moves upward in a parabola, the path of a projectile fated by gravity to fall after its apex, but at just that moment - the very midpoint of the dialogue - the order of foundation gives way to the order of formation: the conversation surrenders to a hyperbolic inspiration, and reaches a view of our world \u003cem\u003esub specie aeternitatis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenneth Quandt holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California Berkeley. He writes commentaries on the Greek text of Plato's \u003ci\u003eDialogues \u003c\/i\u003eand translates books by contemporary European thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 526\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48461209927929,"sku":"9781680536072","price":136.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/HHH7b5EMw99781680536072.webp?v=1780260785","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/platos-republic-retold-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}