On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence

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Synopsis
An analysis of the classic Greek dialogue about absolute rule and the impassioned commentary it inspired between two philosophers.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 Kojève, 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 Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.“On Tyranny is a complex and stimulating book with its ‘parallel dialogue’ made all the more striking since both participants take such unusual, highly provocative positions and so force readers to face substantial problems in what are often wholly unfamiliar, even shocking ways.” ―History and Theory
Copyright:
2013

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
360 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780226033525
Related ISBNs:
9780226030135
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
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Copyrighted By:
Estate of Leo Strauss
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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Edited by:
Victor Gourevitch
Edited by:
Michael S. Roth

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