On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojve Correspondence

Name: On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojve Correspondence
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ISBN: 9780226030135

ISBN-10: 022603013X

ISBN-13: 9780226030135

Edition: 2013 (Expurgated)

Authors: Leo Strauss, Victor Gourevitch, Michael S. Roth

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On Tyrannyis Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogueHiero, orTyrannicus, 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 commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two.This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.“Through Strauss’s interpretation, Xenophon appears to us as…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the author of many books, among them The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Natural Right and History,and Spinoza's Critique of Religion, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Victor Gourevitch is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Wesleyan University.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



On Tyranny


Xenophon: Hiero or Tyrannicus


Leo Strauss: On Tyranny


Notes to On Tyranny



The Strauss-Kojï¿½ve Debate


Alexandre Kojï¿½ve: Tyranny and Wisdom


Leo Strauss: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero



The Strauss-Kojï¿½ve Correspondence


Letters


Editorial Notes


Name Index


Subject Index