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Leo Strauss on Hegel by Leo Strauss
Booksplease Price: €46.61In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss did not consider himself a Hegelian nor write about Hegel at any length, his writings contain... -
Leo Strauss on Hegel by Leo Strauss 9780226816784
Booksplease Price: €37.33In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings... -
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium Leo Strauss 9780226776866
Booksplease Price: €32.87The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than 30 years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his... -
Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn Leo Strauss 9780226922782
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €53.30Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism... -
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Leo Strauss
RRP: €46.41Booksplease Price: €46.26Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche's thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on... -
Leo Strauss on Plato's "Protagoras" by Leo Strauss
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €45.64A transcript of Leo Strauss's key seminars on Plato's Protagoras. This book offers a transcript of Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter... -
An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays by Leo Strauss by Leo Strauss
Booksplease Price: €39.87A reissue of the 1975 edition, with four added essays, this collection offers a clear introduction to Strauss' views regarding the nature of political philosophy, its chief contemporary antagonists,... -
Leo Strauss` Published but Uncollected English Writings by Leo Strauss 9781587314612
Booksplease Price: €42.90Any 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... -
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Leo Strauss
Booksplease Price: €37.33Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche's thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on... -
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism by Leo Strauss
Booksplease Price: €37.33Leo 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... -
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism by Leo Strauss 9780226566825
RRP: €46.41Booksplease Price: €46.26Leo 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... -
The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss by Leo Strauss 9780226777153
Booksplease Price: €29.51This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously... -
Leo Strauss and the American Right by Shadia B. Drury 9780312217839
Booksplease Price: €55.62In 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States for his first term and the conservative revolution that was slowly developing in the United States finally emerged in full-throated... -
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.75In 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... -
City and Man by Leo Strauss 9780226777016
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €26.17The 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... -
Socrates and Aristophanes by Leo Strauss 9780226777191
Booksplease Price: €36.21In one of his last books, Leo Strauss examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is... -
Leo Strauss: An Introduction by Neil Robertson
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €20.27Leo Strauss's lifelong intellectual mission was to recover 'classical rationalism', a pursuit that has made him a controversial figure to this day. While his critics see him as responsible for a... -
Thoughts on Machiavelli by Leo Strauss 9780226777023
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €30.65Leo 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... -
The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, Updated Edition: With a New Introduction By the Author by S. Drury 9781403969545
Booksplease Price: €55.62Now in paperback, this book explores the political thought of Leo Strauss, a philosopher most noted for playing a key role in neoconservative thought in America. Drury explores Strauss's thought and... -
Toward "Natural Right and History": Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946 by Leo Strauss
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €45.28Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss's most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures... -
Spinoza's Critique of Religion by Leo Strauss 9780226776880
Booksplease Price: €36.21In this text Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. He compares Spinoza's... -
Leo Strauss and Nietzsche Laurence Lampert 9780226468266
Booksplease Price: €36.21The political philosopher Leo Strauss has been credited by conservatives with the recovery of the great tradition of political philosophy stretching back to Plato. Strauss left a strongly negative... -
Leo Strauss: An Introduction by Neil Robertson 9781509516308
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509516308Author Neil RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
History of Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss 9780226777108
Booksplease Price: €39.65This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written... -
Xenophon's Socrates by Author Leo Strauss 9781587319655
Booksplease Price: €17.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss 9780226777115
Booksplease Price: €29.51The 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,... -
The Ideology of Tyranny: Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent by Guido G Preparata 9781403982773
Booksplease Price: €107.77The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the... -
Leo Strauss: Man of Peace by Robert Howse 9781107427679
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €28.27Leo Strauss is known to many people as a thinker of the right, who inspired hawkish views on national security and perhaps advocated war without limits. Moving beyond gossip and innuendo about... -
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.25Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of... -
Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides by Kenneth Hart Green
Booksplease Price: €47.86In "Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides", Kenneth Hart Green explores the critical role played by Maimonides in shaping Leo Strauss' thought. In uncovering the esoteric tradition employed... -
Leo Strauss: Man of Peace by Robert Howse 9781107074996
RRP: €83.29Booksplease Price: €76.15Leo Strauss is known to many people as a thinker of the right, who inspired hawkish views on national security and perhaps advocated war without limits. Moving beyond gossip and innuendo about... -
Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy Leo Strauss 9780226777009
Booksplease Price: €36.21One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973... -
Reading Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith 9780226764023
Booksplease Price: €58.46Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith,... -
Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem by Heinrich Meier
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €30.26This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the... -
Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought by Rasoul Namazi
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €84.60In this book, Rasoul Namazi offers the first in-depth study of Leo Strauss' writings on Islamic political thought, a topic that interested Strauss over the course of his career. Namazi's volume... -
The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws Leo Strauss 9780226776989
Booksplease Price: €36.21The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through... -
The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss by Laurence Lampert 9780226039480
Booksplease Price: €72.01In The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss, Laurence Lampert takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his... -
Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography by Daniel Tanguay 9780300172102
Booksplease Price: €35.33A major, groundbreaking biography that traces the intellectual development of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century Since political theorist Leo Strauss's death in... -
Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia by Jun-Hyeok Kwak 9781032086958
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72This book analyzes the reception of Leo Strauss and his political philosophy in Northeast Asia. By juxtaposing the central idea of Strauss's political philosophy with the question of modernity, the... -
Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem by Heinrich Meier 9780521856478
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €84.60This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the...