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 AnimalPart 2 Philosophy and PoliticsChapter 3 Politics Book 1: Cannibalism and NatureChapter 4 Politics Book 2: Parricide and PoliticsChapter 5 Politic Book 3: The Poverty of PhilosophyPart 6 PoliticsChapter 7 Politics Book 4: The Soul of the PolisChapter 8 Politics Book 5: Eros and PhysicsChapter 9 Politics Book 6: Democracy and the HaphazardPart 10 Politics and PhilosophyChapter 11 Politics Book 7: Politics and PoetryChapter 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 AnimalPart 2 Philosophy and PoliticsChapter 3 Politics Book 1: Cannibalism and NatureChapter 4 Politics Book 2: Parricide and PoliticsChapter 5 Politic Book 3: The Poverty of PhilosophyPart 6 PoliticsChapter 7 Politics Book 4: The Soul of the PolisChapter 8 Politics Book 5: Eros and PhysicsChapter 9 Politics Book 6: Democracy and the HaphazardPart 10 Politics and PhilosophyChapter 11 Politics Book 7: Politics and PoetryChapter 12 Politics Book 8: Poetry and Politics