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

Strauss, Leo

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 Authors

Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. From 1949 to 1968, he was professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He authored numerous books, including The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Natural Right and History, and Spinoza’s Critique of Religion, among others.
 

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.

Edition details

• 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.