On Plato's Statesman

by Cornelius Castoriadis

Book Overview

This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned and influential figure in twentieth-century thought. A close reading of Plato's Statesman, it is an exemplary instance of Castoriadis's pragmatic, pertinent, and discriminating approach to thinking and reading a great work: "I mean really reading it, by respecting it without respecting it, by going into the recesses and details...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741441
• ISBN13: 9780804741446
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"