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This corrected and expanded edition introduces important revisions throughout and expands Strauss' 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227183624565,"sku":"9780226030135","price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226030135_b0b8d9b1-5018-401c-a87e-c32e0cff93f3.jpg?v=1786012254"},{"product_id":"9780226777115","title":"Persecution and the Art of Writing","description":"The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227293135221,"sku":"9780226777115","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226777115_cb5bf0ec-4a87-4057-83fb-bebe95e10c69.jpg?v=1786012776"},{"product_id":"9780226777016","title":"The City and Man","description":"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 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227293462901,"sku":"9780226777016","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226777016_32b72bd2-0398-44f8-b2ff-ab9c340b54c5.jpg?v=1786012773"},{"product_id":"9780226776941","title":"Natural Right and History","description":"In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever. \"Strauss ...makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves ...[and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant, incisive mind.\"--John H. Hallowell, American Political Science Review Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227690185077,"sku":"9780226776941","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226776941_0dfb30a3-98eb-4d00-a742-ffadb3cdd76b.jpg?v=1786032708"},{"product_id":"9780226777023","title":"Thoughts on Machiavelli","description":"Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of \"The Prince\" and the \"Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy\". \"We are in sympathy,\" he writes, \"with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech.\" This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this 20th-century scholar should be a valuable text for students of both authors.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56228462559605,"sku":"9780226777023","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226777023_ab64db52-4cb9-4b18-8614-e41e70128a97.jpg?v=1786012773"},{"product_id":"9781587314612","title":"Leo Strauss` Published but Uncollected English Writings","description":"Any 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. Lenzner and Minkov contend that in order to evaluate Strauss’s achievement properly, one must do so chiefly with reference to the works by which Strauss sought to establish his legacy–i.e., those he chose to submit for the consideration of future readers.    The most complete record of Strauss's thought includes his books together with his other published and unpublished writings and lectures. The achievement of this volume is to present in one collection every piece Strauss chose to publish in English that he did not himself include in a collection or a book. The material is arranged chronologically so as to avoid undue categorization by the editors.     Among 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; rare ‘personal’ statements that shed light on his self-understanding as a philosopher; his first writing devoted solely to a classical thinker (“The Spirit of Sparta or the Taste of Xenophon”); his first piece devoted to Plato, “On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy,” his most searching engagement with 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 Hellenica.    This complete collection of Strauss’s scattered work in English 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304936452469,"sku":"9781587314612","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781587314612_97d822f5-e9ca-455e-ad3c-6bd9d8fedd27.jpg?v=1786023674"},{"product_id":"the-concept-of-the-political-expanded-edition","title":"The Concept of the Political – Expanded Edition","description":"In 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 one-self for the state - a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George 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. In 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. An essential update of a modern classic, \"The Concept of the Political, Expanded Edition\" belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political theory or philosophy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466595803509,"sku":"9780226738925","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226738925.jpg?v=1785654653"},{"product_id":"leo-strauss-on-hobbes","title":"Leo Strauss on Hobbes","description":"Leo Strauss’s final seminar on Thomas Hobbes, representing the culmination of more than four decades of close engagement.   Leo Strauss spent more than four decades studying the work of Thomas Hobbes. In Strauss’s distinctive genealogy of political thought, Hobbes emerges as a decisive counterpoint, not only to the Ancients, but also to Strauss’s own project. Strauss saw Hobbes as both the founder of modern natural rights and the modern esoteric writer par excellence.   Strauss’s final seminar on Hobbes from 1964 is the culmination of his engagement with Hobbes’s corpus and contains the richest account of Strauss’s final insight into the nerve of Hobbes’s thought, linking human consciousness to power and passion. The seminar reflects on the tension between Hobbes’s scientific and political frameworks, Hobbes’s emphasis on rights over duties, Hobbes’s atheism, and Hobbes’s attention to causal thinking as the core capacity that sets humans apart from other animals. It also includes Strauss’s most sustained exchange with the Marxist political theorist, C. B. Macpherson. Their rival interpretations of why the state of nature takes the form of a war of all against all led Strauss to reconsider his earlier writings on Hobbes, including those parts that pertain to other thinkers, such as Aristotle, Locke, and Spinoza.   With an introductory essay by Karl Dahlquist that traces the evolution of Strauss’s thinking on Hobbes and frames Strauss’s dialogue with Macpherson, this 1964 seminar on Hobbes is a vital contribution to political thought and intellectual history.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680113140085,"sku":"9780226857244","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-leo-strauss.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}