On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojčve Correspondence - Softcover

Strauss, Leo

 
9780226030135: On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojčve Correspondence
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022603013X ISBN 13: 9780226030135
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojčve, 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 Kojčve’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.

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About the Author

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 Michael S. Roth is the president of Wesleyan University and the author of several books, including Memory, Trauma, and History.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
022603013X
ISBN 13 
9780226030135
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
358
Editor
Gourevitch Victor, Roth Michael S.