Plato's Republic: A Ladybird Expert Book
by Angela Hobbs
Plato’s Republic is one of the most important philosophy books ever written, but it can be a difficult book to read. Plato’s Republic: A Ladybird Expert Book explains very clearly what it’s all about in just 24 pages (of text. There are also lovely illustrations). It explains the context and introduces the most important topics that Plato’s Republic covers. The author, Angie Hobbs, is a leading Plato scholar and has also written a 100,000-word book on Plato’s Republic. “In some ways, this was harder,” says Hobbs.
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“It’s part of a new genre of Ladybird book—which I don’t think the public has quite latched onto yet—which is the Ladybird Expert Book. It’s 50 pages long, but roughly 25 of those are illustrations. So it’s a very, very short book which brilliantly summarises the main arguments of Plato’s Republic and engages with some of them. So I’d recommend that.” Read more...
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(If you’re not quite ready to take on Plato’s great work, this is a very short and enjoyable book, with illustrations, that explains the context and introduces the most important topics that the Republic covers, written by a leading scholar)
