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History of political philosophy
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Leo Strauss (Editor), Joseph Cropsey
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 include both new and revised essays.
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Natural Right and History
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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 the work, Natural Right and History remains as ...
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On Tyranny
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Current speculation about the end of the Cold War and its implications for the future of the West has revived an old debate about whether history has an "end" and what this "end of history" will look like. "On Tyranny", first published by The Free Press in 1956, considers the idea of "the end of history". This revised edition includes an extensive ...
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The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 2
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Moses Maimonides, Leo Strauss (Illustrator), Shlomo Pines (Translator)
This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by ...
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The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 1
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Moses Maimonides, Shlomo Pines (Translator), Leo Strauss (Introduction by)
This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influednce upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by ...
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Persecution & the Art of Writing
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Leo Strauss
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 controversial and heterodox ideas.
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Thoughts on Machiavelli
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Leo Strauss
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 "The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy". ...
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Liberalism, Ancient & Modern
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Leo Strauss
Liberal democratic thought in the 20th century is composed of two strands: the classical, which emphasizes human excellence, and the modern, which emphasizes individual freedom and social equality. In these essays, Strauss examines the ambiguous relationship between these tendencies, seeking to illuminate the democratic discourse.
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The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws
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Leo Strauss
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' reflects his interest in political thought, his ...
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Jewish Philos & Crisis Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought
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Leo Strauss, Kenneth Hart Green (Editor)
This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of ...
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Twentieth century Chinese poetry; an anthology.
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Kai-yu Hsu (Compiled by)
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An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays
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Hilail Gildin (Introduction by), Leo Strauss
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Leo Strauss: Early Writings (1921-32): The Early Writings (1921-1932)
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The City and Man
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Leo Strauss
"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 the strangehold of ideology. The essays ...
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What Is Political Philosophy? and Other Studies
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Leo Strauss
"What is Political Philosphy?" - a collection of ten essays and lectures and sixteen book reviews written between 1943 and 1957 - contains some of Leo Strauss's most famous writings and some of his most explicit statements of the themes that made him famous. The title essay records Strauss's sole extended articulation of the meaning of political ...
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The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss
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Leo Strauss
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 the systematic progression of the major themes ...
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Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
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Leo Strauss, Professor Thomas L Pangle (Illustrator)
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 arranged them to clarify the issues in political ...
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Socrates and Aristophanes
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Leo Strauss
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 rivaling philosophy.
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Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium
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Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete (Editor)
In this volume Leo Strauss presents a coherent and complete interpretation of Plato's "Symposium", proceeding by meticulous reading, from beginning to end. Strauss, operating on the idea that commentary is an useful method of expounding the truth, sheds light on the meaning of the dialogue and its place in the Platonic corpus, and also on a host ...
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On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero
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Leo Strauss, Alvin Johnson (Foreword by)
"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. This edition includes a translation of the dialogue, a critique of the commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Koje ve, Strauss's ...
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Xenophon's Socrates
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Leo Strauss
Relying exclusively on the texts, Professor Strauss analyzes and compares every seemingly casual utterance as well as the more formal statements to recover the true Socrates and to determine the character of political philosophy. He investigates its origins, possibilities, and intention against the nonphilosophical background from which it emerged.
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Spinoza's Critique of Religion
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Leo Strauss
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 from Epicurus and Lucretius through Uriel da Costa ...
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Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Intepretation of the Oeconomicus
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Leo Strauss, Professor Carnes Lord (Translator), Christopher Bruell (Foreword by)
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Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the Oeconomicus
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Philosophy and law : essays toward the understanding of Maimonides and his predecessors
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Leo Strauss
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