This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy).
![Plato's Republic [Allan Bloom's translation]](https://cdn.pdfdrive.com/assets/thumbs/5db/5db1a1c5ea90fe8999a2043f57c9821b-s.jpg "Plato's Republic [Allan Bloom's translation]")
