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 Koj???ve, Strauss's restatement of his position in light of Koj???ve's comments, and finally, the complete Strauss-Koj???ve correspondence. "Through [Strauss's] interpretation Xenophon appears to us as ...
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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 Koj???ve, Strauss's restatement of his position in light of Koj???ve's comments, and finally, the complete Strauss-Koj???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 Koj???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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London 1963 Colllier Macmillan ltd. Hardcover octavo. Black cloth. Silver decoration on front cover panel and silver backstrip lettering. 228p. About 12 pages have some ink notation. Binding secure; cover not worn. in Good Plus dust jacket. A study of Xenophon's Hiero, Alexandre Kojeve's critique of that study and the author's reply and a new translation of the Hiero itself.
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