The City and Man by Leo Strauss - 1978-11-15

University Of Chicago Press. Good. 1978. Paperback. 0226777014 . 8.90 X 5.80 X 0.50 inches; 254 pages .

Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1978. Paper Back. New.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philos

Paperback / softback. New. "The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' "Peloponnesian Wars." Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the strangehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate familiarity with the works, but the essay on Aristotle is especially important as one of Strauss's few writings on the philosopher who largely shaped Strauss's conception of antiquity. The essay on Plato is a full-scale discussion of Platonic political philosophy, wide in scope yet compact in execution. When discussing Thucydides, Strauss scceeds not only in presenting the historian as a moral thinker of high rank, but in drawing his thought into the orbit of philosophy, and thus indicating a relation of… Read More

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1978. Paperback. New. 254 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of Chicago Press, 1978-11-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!