| What Is Political Philosophy? and Other Studies Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Strauss, Leo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226777138 ISBN-13: 9780226777139 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1988 Annotation: The matter collected in this volume has all been published before, but not all of it in the English original. 'What is Political Philosophy?' is a revised version of the Judah L. Magnes Lectures, which the author delivered at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in December 1954 and January 1955. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 88017433 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.56" W x 8.48" (0.82 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: All political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. If this directedness becomes explicit, if men make it their explicit goal to acquire knowledge of the good life and of the good society, political philosophy emerges. . . . The theme of political philosophy is mankind's great objectives, freedom and government or empire--objectives which are capable of lifting all men beyond their poor selves. Political philosophy is that branch of philosophy which is closest to political life, to non-philosophic life, to human life.--From What Is Political Philosophy? What Is Political Philosophy?--a collection of ten essays and lectures and sixteen book reviews written between 1943 and 1957--contains some of Leo Strauss's most famous writings and some of his most explicit statements of the themes that made him famous. The title essay records Strauss's sole extended articulation of the meaning of political philosophy itself. Other essays discuss the relation of political philosophy to history, give an account of the political philosophy of the non-Christian Middle Ages and of classic European modernity, and present his theory of esoteric writing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Strauss, Leo: - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born and educated in Germany, he emigrated to the United Sates in 1937. From 1949 to 1968 he was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He was the author of numerous books, many of which are published by the University of Chicago Press.
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