Brill's companion to Leo Strauss' writings on classical political thought / edited by Timothy W. Burns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burns, Timothy, 1958- editor.

Brill Online Books and Journals.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II.

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies II

Companions in Classical Studies II

Brill's companions to classical reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strauss, Leo.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Greek philology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought offers clear, accessible essays to assist a new generation of readers in their introduction to Strauss' writings on the ancients, and to deepen the understanding of those who have already benefitted from his work. Strauss rediscovered esoteric writing. His careful explications of works by classical thinkers - of Socratic political philosophy, pre-Socratic philosophers, and of poets tragic and comic - have therefore opened those works up in a way that had been lost for centuries. Yet Strauss' writings, especially his later works, make considerable demands on any reader. These essays are written by scholars who bring to bear on their reading of Strauss many years of study. Book jacket.

Contents:

Leo Strauss' recovery of classical political philosophy / Timothy W. Burns

On "The origin of the idea of natural right" in natural right and history / Gregory A. McBrayer

Reading thucydides with Leo Strauss / Clifford Orwin

On Leo Strauss' "Notes on Lucretius" / James H. Nichols, Jr

Leo Strauss' "the liberalism of classical political philosophy" / Timothy W. Burns

On "classic natural right" in natural right and history / Devin Stauffer

"On Collingwood's philosophy of history" and "on a new interpretation of Plato's political philosophy" / Jonathan F. Culp

Learning to love Aristophanes : reading Aristophanes with Strauss / Christopher Baldwin

On Leo Strauss's presentation of Xenophon's political philosophy in "the problem of Socrates" / Richard S. Ruderman

"Through the keyhole" : leo strauss' rediscovery of classical political philosophy in Xenophon's constitution of the Lacedaemonians / Richard S. Ruderman

A guide to the study of Leo Strauss' On tyranny / Eric Buzzetti

Socratic rhetoric and political philosophy : Leo Strauss on Xenophon's Symposium / Dustin Gish

Strauss on the memorabilia : Xenophon's Socrates / Amy L. Bonnette

Strauss on Xenophon's Anabasis : the difference between Socrates and Xenophon in Leo Strauss' account of Xenophon's Anabasis / Devin Stauffer

Divine justice in Strauss' Anabasis / Timothy W. Burns

Leo Strauss on the politics of Plato's republic / Linda R. Rabieh

Philosophy and law : on the gravest question in Plato's Minos / Robert Goldberg

An introduction to Strauss' "an untitled lecture on Plato's Euthyphron" / Wayne Ambler

Eristics, protreptics, and (dialectics): strauss on Plato's Euthydemos / Michael Rosano

Strauss on the apology and crit / John C. Koritansky

The argument and the action of plato's laws / Mark J. Lutz

Aristotle's political science, common sense, and the Socratic tradition in the city and man / Susan D. Collins.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9789004299832

9004299831

9004243356

9789004243354

OCLC:

917888765