Prologue: conversation in the villa on the harbor (327a-336b)
Reducing the sophist to silence (336b-357a)
The young men's and women's pressing questions (357a-368d)
The origins of society and the state (368d-376c)
The disciplines of the mind: literature and music (376c-403c)
The disciplines of the body: nutrition, medicine, and physical education (403c-412c)
Objective justice (412c-434d)
Subjective justice (434d-449a)
Women and families (449a-471c)
What is a philosopher? (471c-484b)
Philosophy and politics (484b-502c)
What is an idea? (502c-521c)
From mathematics to the dialectic (521c-541b)
Critique of the four pre-communist systems of government: 1. timocracy and oligarchy (541b-555b)
Critique of the four pre-communist systems of government: democracy and tyranny (555b-573b)
Justice and happiness (573b-592b)
Poetry and thought (592b-608b)
Epilogue: the mobile eternity of subjects (608b-end)
Notes.
Plato's Republic : a dialogue in 16 chapters by Alain Badiou. ISBN 9780745662145. Published by Polity in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.