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Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy
Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism
Av Leo Strauss, Catherine H. Zuckert
Häftad, 2021
375 kr
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Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good …
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy
Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism
Av Leo Strauss, Catherine H. Zuckert
Inbunden, 2018
418 kr
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Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good …
Persecution and the Art of Writing
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1988
343 kr
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The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most …
Thoughts on Machiavelli
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1995
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
341 kr
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Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of "The Prince" and the …
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
Av Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete
Häftad, 2003
324 kr
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The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than 30 years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did. Given as a course in autumn 1959 under the title "Plato's Political Philosophy" these …
On Tyranny – Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss–Kojève Correspondence
Av Leo Strauss, Victor Gourevitch m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss' classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss' …
Concept of the Political – Expanded Edition
Av Carl Schmitt, George Schwab m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
264 kr
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In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing one-self for the state - a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab's …
Natural Right and History
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1965
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
247 kr
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In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned …
On Tyranny
Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence
Av Leo Strauss, Michael S. Roth m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
682 kr
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On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero , or Tyrannicus , in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s …
Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
Av Leo Strauss
E-bok, 2022
701 kr
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One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss''s death in 1973. Having chosen the title for the book, he selected the most important writings of his later years and …
Spinoza's Critique of Religion
Av Leo Strauss
E-bok, 1996
796 kr
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Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza''s scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza''s Theologico-political Treatise and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from …
Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws
Av Leo Strauss
E-bok, 2014
796 kr
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The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato''s "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato''s classic text. "Strauss''s The Argument and the Action of Plato''s …
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Av Leo Strauss, Richard L. Velkley
Inbunden, 2017
419 kr
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Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche's thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, taught in 1959 during Strauss's tenure at the University of …
Leo Strauss on Hegel
Inbunden, 2019
419 kr
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In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss did not consider himself a Hegelian nor write about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes, in …
Spinoza's Critique of Religion
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1997
366 kr
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In this text Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. He compares Spinoza's "Theologico-political Treatise" and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion …
Political Philosophy of Hobbes
Its Basis and Its Genesis
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1996
298 kr
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In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral …
Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1998
366 kr
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The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text. "Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' …
Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1985
366 kr
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One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973. Having chosen the title for the book, he selected the most important writings of his later years and …
City and Man
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1978
289 kr
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The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from …
History of Political Philosophy
Av Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey
Häftad, 1987
332 kr
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This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to …
Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism
An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss
Av Leo Strauss, Thomas L. Pangle
Häftad, 1989
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
298 kr
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This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate …
Socrates and Aristophanes
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1996
421 kr
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In one of his last books, Leo Strauss examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of …
Leo Strauss on Hegel
Häftad, 2021
375 kr
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In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes, …
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Av Leo Strauss, Richard L. Velkley
Häftad, 2021
375 kr
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Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche’s thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, taught in 1959 during Strauss’s tenure at the University of …
Leo Strauss on Plato’s "Protagoras"
Av Leo Strauss, Robert C. Bartlett
Inbunden, 2022
546 kr
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A transcript of Leo Strauss’s key seminars on Plato’s Protagoras. This book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett. These lectures have several …
Leo Strauss on Plato's "e;Protagoras"e;
Av Leo Strauss, Robert C. Bartlett
E-bok, 2022
1065 kr
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A transcript of Leo Strauss’s key seminars on Plato’s Protagoras . This book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett. These lectures have several …
Leo Strauss on Hobbes
Av Leo Strauss, Karl Dahlquist
Inbunden, 2027
426 kr
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Leo Strauss’s final seminar on Thomas Hobbes, representing the culmination of more than four decades of close engagement.Leo Strauss spent more than four decades studying the work of Thomas Hobbes. In Strauss’s distinctive genealogy of political thought, Hobbes emerges as a decisive counterpoint, …
Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn
Av Leo Strauss
Inbunden, 2012
486 kr
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Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controversy to defend the philosophical legacies of Spinoza and Leibniz against F. H. Jacobi's philosophy of …
Philosophy and Law
Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors
Av Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1995
455 kr
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A groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors.Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors, and it offers an argument on behalf of that philosophy which is also …
