Introduction
The Republic : contexts and projects
The centrepiece
Some dubious Platonic autobiography
Socrates : engagement and detachment
The projects of The Republic
Education, Sparta and the politeia tradition
Athens, democracy and freedom
Democratic entanglements
Democracy and rhetoric
The laws on democracy and freedom
Problematizing democracy
From polarity to complexity
Democracy, equality and freedom
Democracy and pluralism
Democracy and anarchy
Democracy and knowledge
The rule of knowledge
Philosophy or political expertise?
Mill and Jowett on Plato
Architectonic knowledge
Philosopher rulers
Architectonic knowledge revisited
The limitations of management
Utopia
Against utopia
A question of seriousness
A future for utopianism
Plato's utopian realism
The idea of community
Epilogue : the question of fantasy
Money and the soul
The ethics and politics of money
The analogy of city and soul
The psychology of money
Greed, power and injustice
Taming the beast within
Ideology
Ideology and religion
The noble lie
Law and religion.
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