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Grief Set Free (Paperback)
Alvin Johnson; Foreword by Robert K Myers
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Grief Set Free (Hardcover)
Alvin Johnson; Foreword by Robert K Myers
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This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
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"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's
dialogue, "Hiero" or "Tyrannicus," in which the tyrant Hiero and
the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
exercising tyranny. This edition includes a translation of the
dialogue, a critique of the commentary by the French philosopher
Alexandre Koje ve, Strauss's restatement of his position in light
of Koje ve's comments, and finally, the complete Strauss-Koje ve
correspondence.
"Through [Strauss's] interpretation Xenophon appears to us as no
longer the somewhat dull and flat author we know, but as a
brilliant and subtle writer, an original and profound thinker. What
is more, in interpreting this forgotten dialogue, Strauss lays bare
great moral and political problems that are still ours." --
Alexandre Koje ve, "Critique"
""On Tyranny" is a complex and stimulating book with its 'parallel
dialogue' made all the more striking since both participants take
such unusual, highly provocative positions, and so force readers to
face substantial problems in what are often wholly unfamiliar, even
shocking ways." -- Robert Pippin, "History and Theory"
"Every political scientist who tries to disentangle himself from
the contemporary confusion over the problems of tyranny will be
much indebted to this study and inevitably use it as a starting
point."-- Eric Voegelin, "The Review of Politics"
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins
Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the
University of Chicago.
"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's
dialogue, "Hiero" or "Tyrannicus," in which the tyrant Hiero and
the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
exercising tyranny. This edition includes a translation of the
dialogue, a critique of the commentary by the French philosopher
Alexandre Koje ve, Strauss's restatement of his position in light
of Koje ve's comments, and finally, the complete Strauss-Koje ve
correspondence.
"Through [Strauss's] interpretation Xenophon appears to us as no
longer the somewhat dull and flat author we know, but as a
brilliant and subtle writer, an original and profound thinker. What
is more, in interpreting this forgotten dialogue, Strauss lays bare
great moral and political problems that are still ours." --
Alexandre Koje ve, "Critique"
""On Tyranny" is a complex and stimulating book with its 'parallel
dialogue' made all the more striking since both participants take
such unusual, highly provocative positions, and so force readers to
face substantial problems in what are often wholly unfamiliar, even
shocking ways." -- Robert Pippin, "History and Theory"
"Every political scientist who tries to disentangle himself from
the contemporary confusion over the problems of tyranny will be
much indebted to this study and inevitably use it as a starting
point."-- Eric Voegelin, "The Review of Politics"
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins
Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the
University of Chicago.
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