John Russon

Politics, Money, and Persuasion

Democracy and Opinion in Plato's Republic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

¿ Interprets Plato's Republic in light of the political and cultural history of Greece. ¿ Identifies money as a distinctive and decisive theme in the Republic. ¿ Reveals how the image of the divided line in the Republic is a compelling account of knowledge as existential transformation. ¿ Demonstrates how and way democracy and its problems are inescapable features of political life.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780253057679
• ISBN-10: 0253057671
• Artikelnr.: 60073614

Autorenporträt

John Russon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and Director of the Toronto Summer Seminar in Philosophy. He is author of Sites of Exposure: A Philosophy Essay on Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience and Infinite Phenomenology: The Lessons of Hegel's Science of Experience.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Citations
Introduction
Politics, Money and Persuasion
1. The Problem of Abstraction
2. The Currencies of Power
The Vicissitudes of Opinion
3. True Opinion
4. Persuasion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of subjects
Index of passages