Your reaction to this book is fascinating. I haven't read it yet but I found the Just City amazing and complicated from a Classicist point of view. The mixture of how some of Plato's ideas were stupid but kept with them because that was what he said and Apollo, I loved Apollo's not getting it.
To me that first book felt like it got a lot about how utopias truly fit their time and place which makes sense and how people are people in their messy ways. My mother's an anthropologist with an interest in intentional communities and a lot of that was in my head as I read along with translating Plato. It was one of those books that really kept with me. My short review is here if you're curious. I look forward to reading this one for more discussion.
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Date: 2016-01-05 06:40 am (UTC)To me that first book felt like it got a lot about how utopias truly fit their time and place which makes sense and how people are people in their messy ways. My mother's an anthropologist with an interest in intentional communities and a lot of that was in my head as I read along with translating Plato. It was one of those books that really kept with me. My short review is here if you're curious. I look forward to reading this one for more discussion.