On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence |
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| Author:
| Strauss, Leo |
| Editor:
| Gourevitch, Victor
Roth, Michael S. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-78476-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $54.00 |
Book Description:
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"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 Kojeve, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout...
More Description"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 Kojeve, 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 Kojeve's commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.