ATKINS, J.W.,
Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason. The 'Republic' and 'Laws'.
Cambridge University Press, 2020. XIV,270p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Nice copy. Like new. 'Recently James Zetzel, in his chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Cicero, noted that ‘Cicero’s political theory has been discussed very little in English until fairly recently and there is still no satisfactory full-length treatment of De re publica…’. Atkins’ elegant and probing analysis in this monograph, the recasting of a 2009 Cambridge PhD thesis, goes a very long way to filling that gap. (...) Its focus is not simply De republica; that work is considered alongside De legibus. Atkins’ attempt to offer a sustained reading of these two dialogues as serious contributions to political philosophy is, to a very large extent, a great success. He deftly analyses Cicero’s positions within the existing philosophical framework, showing not only the extent to which he differs from Plato, Aristotle and their successors but also explaining why those differences are interesting and productive. In addition, his alertness to Cicero’s ability as a writer enables him to relate structure to argument in consistently productive ways.' (CATHERINE STEEL in BMCR, 2014.09.32).
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