On Tyranny

Release on 1991 | by Leo Strauss

This edition includes a translation of the dialogue, a critique of the commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, Strauss's restatement of his position in light of Kojève's comments, and finally, the complete Strauss-Kojève ...

Author: Leo Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226776875
Category: Philosophy
Page: 336
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On Tyranny

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 Kojève, Strauss's restatement of his position in light of Kojève's comments, and finally, the complete Strauss-Kojève 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 Kojève, 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.

Language: en
Pages: 336

On Tyranny

Authors: Leo Strauss, Alexandre Kojève

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Language: en
Pages: 128

On Tyranny

Authors: Timothy Snyder

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-28 - Publisher: Tim Duggan Books

#1 New York Times Bestseller • A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism

Language: en
Pages: 428

Leo Strauss on Hegel

Authors: Leo Strauss

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

In 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 contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes, in his debate

Language: en
Pages: 68

Resisting Tyranny

Authors: John C. Morgan, Richard L. Morgan

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-07 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Resisting Tyranny is a new book about an American Revolutionary patriot, Matthew Lyon, a Congressman from Vermont, who was thrown into jail for criticizing then President John Adams under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. This is the story of a young Irish immigrant who became a leader in