Michael Davis is professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of Aristotle's Poetics: The Poetry of Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).

Michael Davis has for the first time shown how the disparate parts of Aristotle's Politics are to be understood in light of their several perplexities, and how all the parts constitute a whole that constitutes in turn political philosophy and the philosophical nature of human, i.e., political, life.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Rational Animal/Political Animal Part 2 Philosophy and Politics Chapter 3 Politics Book 1: Cannibalism and Nature Chapter 4 Politics Book 2: Parricide and Politics Chapter 5 Politic Book 3: The Poverty of Philosophy Part 6 Politics Chapter 7 Politics Book 4: The Soul of the Polis Chapter 8 Politics Book 5: Eros and Physics Chapter 9 Politics Book 6: Democracy and the Haphazard Part 10 Politics and Philosophy Chapter 11 Politics Book 7: Politics and Poetry Chapter 12 Politics Book 8: Poetry and Politics

Michael Davis is professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of Aristotle's Poetics: The Poetry of Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).

Michael Davis has for the first time shown how the disparate parts of Aristotle's Politics are to be understood in light of their several perplexities, and how all the parts constitute a whole that constitutes in turn political philosophy and the philosophical nature of human, i.e., political, life.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Rational Animal/Political Animal Part 2 Philosophy and Politics Chapter 3 Politics Book 1: Cannibalism and Nature Chapter 4 Politics Book 2: Parricide and Politics Chapter 5 Politic Book 3: The Poverty of Philosophy Part 6 Politics Chapter 7 Politics Book 4: The Soul of the Polis Chapter 8 Politics Book 5: Eros and Physics Chapter 9 Politics Book 6: Democracy and the Haphazard Part 10 Politics and Philosophy Chapter 11 Politics Book 7: Politics and Poetry Chapter 12 Politics Book 8: Poetry and Politics