Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy - Hardcover

Strauss, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226777030 ISBN 13: 9780226777030

Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1985

Synopsis

Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy

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From the Back Cover:

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 philosophy that occupied his attention throughout his life.

About the Author:

At the time of his death, Leo Strauss was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar in Residence at St. John's College. His contributions to political philsophy include Natural Right and History, The Argument and Action of Plato's Laws, Socrates and Aristophanes, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, The City and Man, Thoughts on Machiavelli, and, with Joseph Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Thomas L. Pangle is professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0226777030
• ISBN 13: 9780226777030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260