Autor: Catherine H. Zuckert

This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss work is the first devoted to Strauss thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range o …

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Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and bet …

Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, an …

Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the …

Is Leo Strauss truly an intellectual forebear of neoconservatism and a powerful force in shaping Bush administration foreign policy? The Truth about Leo Strauss puts this question to rest, revealing …

This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single …

Leo 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 specifi …