C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent books include Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (2012), Blindness and Reorientation: Problems in Plato's Republic (2012), and Aristotle on Practical Wisdom: Nicomachean Ethics Book VI (2013). He has translated Plato's Cratylus (1997), Euthyphoro, Apology, and Crito (2002), Republic (2004), and Meno (2006), as well as Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2014), and Metaphysics (2016).
"David Reeve's new translation of the Politics is certain to become
the primary and indispensable tool for anyone undertaking a careful
study of Aristotle's great work. Newcomers to this treatise as well
as advanced scholars will learn enormously from the Introduction,
extensive notes, and detailed index."
—Richard Kraut, Northwestern University
"C. D. C. Reeve's study of
Aristotle's Politics (translation with introduction,
hundreds of notes, and a detailed index of terms) does justice to
Aristotle's practical philosophy as a whole in an exceptional way.
. . . [Far] from being a simple revision of his previous work
(Hackett, 1998) [it] provides us with a totally fresh English text
in harmony with his recent translation of the Nicomachean Ethics
(Hackett, 2014). . . . Among the merits of the edition is Reeve's
philosophically illuminating Introduction [which] attempts to
situate politics within the framework of Aristotelian sciences. . .
. It is a great merit of Reeve's Translation and Commentary that
his own views are confined to his Introduction. In his sequentially
numbered endnotes we most often hear Aristotle's own voice and not
a commentary that might have promoted partial interpretations.
Apart from the quotation of a wide range of passages from the
Aristotelian corpus, the reader will also find clarifications
providing her with the assistance necessary to find her own way in
the text. . . . In general, comparing the new translation to the
Greek text one can hardly fail to recognize that it attains an
admirable balance between fidelity and smoothness: though following
the syntax of the Greek text, it remains fluent and readable. . . .
In a nutshell, Reeve's new translation and commentary is a
masterful work. Both students who wish to study the Politics and
advanced scholars will greatly profit from it."
—Vasia Vergouli, University of Patras, in Bryn Mawr
Classical Review
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