{"title":"Leo Strauss","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeo Strauss' works delve deeply into classical and modern political philosophy, exploring complex ideas found in texts by figures such as Maimonides and Plato. His writings invite readers to reconsider foundational questions about the nature of politics, philosophy, and the interplay between the esoteric and the exoteric in philosophical discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection reveals Strauss’ meticulous engagement with themes of political truth and the concept of the political, offering thoughtful analysis suited for those interested in the rigorous study of philosophy and political theory. His essays and expanded editions provide penetrating insights into the subtleties of philosophical writing and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"leo-strauss-on-platos-protagoras-by-leo-strauss-9780226818153","title":"Leo Strauss on Plato’s \"Protagoras\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA transcript of Leo Strauss’s key seminars on Plato’s \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese lectures have several important features. Unlike his published writings, they are less dense and more conversational. Additionally, while Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, he published little on individual dialogues. In these lectures, Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues—courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these lectures, Strauss examines Protagoras and the sophists, providing a detailed discussion of \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e as it relates to Plato’s other dialogues and the work of modern thinkers. This book should be of special interest to students both of Plato and of Strauss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669454572,"sku":"9780226818153","price":104.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20409813482268.jpg?v=1763295159"},{"product_id":"leo-strauss-on-maimonides-by-leo-strauss-9780226776774","title":"Leo Strauss on Maimonides","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeo Strauss is widely recognised as one of the foremost interpreters of Maimonides. His studies of the medieval Jewish philosopher led to his rediscovery of esotericism and deepened his sense that the tension between reason and revelation was central to modern political thought. His writings throughout the twentieth century were chiefly responsible for restoring Maimonides as a philosophical thinker of the first rank. Yet, to appreciate the extent of Strauss’s contribution to the scholarship on Maimonides, one has traditionally had to seek out essays he published separately spanning almost fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eLeo Strauss on Maimonides\u003c\/i\u003e, Kenneth Hart Green presents for the first time a comprehensive, annotated collection of Strauss’s writings on Maimonides, comprising sixteen essays, three of which appear in English for the first time. Green has also provided careful translations of materials that had originally been quoted in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, German, and French; written an informative introduction highlighting the original contributions found in each essay; and brought references to out-of-print editions fully up to date. The result will become the standard edition of Strauss’s writings on Maimonides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669487340,"sku":"9780226776774","price":106.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19996023482268.jpg?v=1763295161"},{"product_id":"leo-strauss-on-political-philosophy-by-leo-strauss-9780226816807","title":"Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good command of the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1965, however, Strauss offered an introductory course on political philosophy at the University of Chicago. Using a conversational style, he sought to make political philosophy, as well as his own ideas and methods, understandable to those with little background on the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeo Strauss on Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the lectures that comprise Strauss’s “Introduction to Political Philosophy.” Strauss begins by emphasizing the importance of political philosophy in determining the common good of society and critically examining the two most powerful contemporary challenges to the possibility of using political theory to learn about and develop the best political order: positivism and historicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn seeking the common good, classical political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle did not distinguish between political philosophy and political science. Today, however, political philosophy must contend with the contemporary belief that it is impossible to know what the good society really is. Strauss emphasizes the need to study the history of political philosophy to see whether the changes in the understanding of nature and conceptions of justice that gradually led people to believe that it is not possible to determine what the best political society is are either necessary or valid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn doing so, he ranges across the entire history of political philosophy, providing a valuable, thematically coherent foundation, including explications of many canonical thinkers, such as Auguste Comte and Immanuel Kant, about whom Strauss did not write extensively in his published writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669585644,"sku":"9780226816807","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20396353482268.jpg?v=1763295169"},{"product_id":"leo-strauss-published-but-uncollected-english-writings-by-steven-j-lenzner-9781587314612","title":"Leo Strauss` Published but Uncollected English Writings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAny presentation of political philosophy in the 20th century is radically incomplete without Leo Strauss. The appearance of this collection is particularly important given the relentless but shifting interest in his influence and thought in recent years. An emphasis on what Strauss has directly published, the editors Lenzner and Minkov assert, must retain primacy when establishing his full range of importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough Strauss scholars, to say nothing of others, have reason to be grateful for the publication in recent years of many of Strauss’s unpublished lectures and essays as well as his correspondence with some of his leading contemporaries, the publication of these materials has tended to overshadow the serious study of those works upon which he sought to establish his reputation and legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe most complete record of Strauss includes his full books together with his other published writings, and the intention of this volume is to present in one collection everything Strauss chose to publish in English that has not already appeared as a full-length book. The material is arranged chronologically so as to provide the most direct connection to the author himself and avoid undue categorization by the editors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the highlights of these works published between 1937 and 1972 are striking formulations not to be found in his books on the relationship between philosophy and society, which is perhaps the most prominent theme in Strauss’s corpus taken as a whole. Also included are rare “personal” statements that shed light on his self-understanding as a philosopher; his first writing devoted solely to a classical thinker, \u003cem\u003eThe Spirit of Sparta or the Taste of Xenophon\u003c\/em\u003e; his first piece devoted to Plato, \u003cem\u003eOn a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e; his most searching engagement of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; his first treatment of the thought of Niccolò Machiavelli and a wonderful, later treatment of Machiavelli’s relation to ancient writers; and a critical review of a book on Xenophon’s \u003cem\u003eHellenica\u003c\/em\u003e which expands Xenophon’s own work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new compilation of Strauss's scattered work is invaluable for those interested in the political philosopher, to be sure. But it is also an important contribution to the field in general as well as the history of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669618412,"sku":"9781587314612","price":85.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3766253482753.jpg?v=1763295181"},{"product_id":"the-concept-of-the-political-expanded-edition-by-tracy-b-strong-9780226738925","title":"The Concept of the Political – Expanded Edition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Schwab’s introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt’s intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to analysis by Leo Strauss and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt’s work into contemporary context, this expanded edition also includes a translation of Schmitt’s 1929 lecture “The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations,” which the author himself added to the 1932 edition of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential update on a modern classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Concept of the Political, Expanded Edition\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political theory or philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428237557996,"sku":"9780226738925","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226738925.jpg?v=1774766854"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/leo-strauss.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}