Brill's companion to Leo Strauss' writings on classical political thought / / edited by Timothy W. Burns ; contributors, Wayne Ambler [and seventeen others].

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (494 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Leo Strauss’ Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy / Timothy W. Burns
  • 1 On “The Origin of the Idea of Natural Right” in Natural Right and History / Gregory A. McBrayer
  • 2 Reading Thucydides with Leo Strauss / Clifford Orwin
  • 3 On Leo Strauss’ “Notes on Lucretius” / James H. Nichols
  • 4 Leo Strauss’ “The Liberalism of Classical Political Philosophy” / Timothy W. Burns
  • 5 On “Classic Natural Right” in Natural Right and History / Devin Stauffer
  • 6 “On Collingwood’s Philosophy of History” and “On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy” / Jonathan F. Culp
  • 7 Learning to Love Aristophanes: Reading Aristophanes with Strauss / Christopher Baldwin
  • 8 On Leo Strauss’ Presentation of Xenophon’s Political Philosophy in “The Problem of Socrates” / Richard S. Ruderman
  • 9 “Through the Keyhole”: Leo Strauss’ Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lacedaemonians / Richard S. Ruderman
  • 10 A Guide to the Study of Leo Strauss’ On Tyranny / Eric Buzzetti
  • 11 Socratic Rhetoric and Political Philosophy: Leo Strauss on Xenophon’s Symposium / Dustin Gish
  • 12 Strauss on the Memorabilia: Xenophon’s Socrates / Amy L. Bonnette
  • 13a The Difference between Socrates and Xenophon in Leo Strauss’ Account of Xenophon’s Anabasis / Devin Stauffer
  • 13b Divine Justice in Strauss’ Anabasis / Timothy W. Burns
  • 14 Leo Strauss on the Politics of Plato’s Republic / Linda R. Rabieh
  • 15 Philosophy and Law: On the Gravest Question in Plato’s Minos / Robert Goldberg
  • 16 An Introduction to Strauss’ “An Untitled Lecture on Plato’s Euthyphron” / Wayne Ambler
  • 17 Eristics, Protreptics, and (Dialectics): Strauss on Plato’s Euthydemos / Michael Rosano
  • 18 Strauss on the Apology and Crito / John C. Koritansky
  • 19 The Argument and the Action of Plato’s Laws / Mark J. Lutz
  • 20 Aristotle’s Political Science, Common Sense, and the Socratic Tradition in The City and Man / Susan D. Collins
  • Index of Proper Names
  • Subject Index.