The city and man / Leo Strauss.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1978.Description: [viii], 245 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0226777014
- 9780226777016
- 191
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book - 7-day loan | CYA Library Main Collection | 191 STR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000009117 |
Browsing CYA Library shelves, Shelving location: Main Collection Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | ||||
190 RUS Wisdom of the West : | 190 STU Socrates to Sartre : | 190.82 AGE The age of analysis : | 191 STR The city and man / | 191.9 JAM Essays in pragmatism / | 192 WHI Modes of thought, | 192 WIT Tractatus logico-philosophicus / |
"This study is an enlarged version of the Page-Barbour lectures ... delivered at the University of Virginia in the spring of 1962." -- preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thycydides' 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 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 succeeds 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 history and philosophy that does not presuppose the absorption of philosophy by history."--Provided by the publisher.