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Jill Frank Book Talk
(Olin Library – Room 107): Jill Frank, a Government Department professor at Cornell, will discuss her new book, Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's Republic. Focusing on the philosopher Plato’s works as written texts, Frank challenges the traditional interpretation that Plato wants a top-down dissemination of knowledge, suggesting instead that he wants citizen-readers to challenge all claims to authority, even by philosophers....