Christopher Bruell: Essays of Five Decades on Philosophy and Philosophers (SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss) - Softcover

Bruell, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798855804126

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2026

Synopsis

Brings together the most remarkable essays on classical and modern philosophy by noted political philosopher Christopher Bruell.

Christopher Bruell (1942–2024) was one of the great modern interpreters of classical and modern political philosophy. This volume includes almost all the essays, lectures, and book chapters that he published during a remarkable scholarly career that spanned more than four decades. Five of these writings focus on Leo Strauss, with whom Bruell studied as a young man. But the scope of the collection extends beyond Bruell's work on Strauss. The essays take up a wide range of topics, including liberal education, the problem of relativism, the American Founding, the nature of citizenship, and the question of happiness. Above all, the collection focuses on the recovery of classical political philosophy and includes pathbreaking essays on Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. Also included in this volume are three previously unpublished essays.

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About the Authors

Eric Buzzetti is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montréal.

Devin Stauffer is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798855804126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 455
• Editor: Buzzetti Eric, Stauffer Devin