“This book is something of an event, since it is the first time in Castoriadis’s multiverse and multivolume oeuvre that he focuses on a single text. Castoriadis’s range of knowledge, both historical and epistemological, is legendary, but until now we have had only cursory and fragmented instances of his genius for close reading. The Statesman is arguably one of the most difficult and idiosyncratic of Plato’s dialogues, and Castoriadis literally proceeds like a detective, peeling off the layers of this deliberately disorienting text and engaging the reader in a distinct intellectual dialogue, simultaneous with his dialogue with Plato.”—Stathis Gourgouris, Princeton University
“This challenging study will richly reward any reader who wants to grapple with this important dialogue.”—D.J. Maletz, University of Oklahoma