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22%OFFLeo Strauss - The City and Man - 9780226777016 - V9780226777016
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The City and Man

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Description for The City and Man Paperback. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
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 stranglehold 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226777016
SKU
V9780226777016
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