This book reconstructs the impact of Plato's words for the modern reader. In the Republic
Plato presented his schematization of human intellectual development and called for
collaboration between writer and reader. The response presented in this book results in a new
theoretical framework for engaging with Plato's dialogues. Susanna Saracco analyzes the
epistemic function of Plato's written words and explores Plato's higher order pedagogy in
which students are not mere learners and teachers are not the depositories of the truth.
