"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. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss's commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojeve, and the complete correspondence between the two.
This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss's restatement of his position in light of Kojeve's commentary to bring it into conformity...

Leo Strauss is widely recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of Maimonides. His studies of the medieval Jewish philosopher led to his rediscovery of esotericism and deepened his sense that the tension between reason and revelation was central to modern political thought. His writings throughout the twentieth century were chiefly responsible for restoring Maimonides as a philosophical thinker of the first rank. Yet, to appreciate the extent of Strauss s contribution to the scholarship on Maimonides, one has traditionally had to seek out essays he published separately spanning almost...

The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy.

"Philosophie und Gesetz" markiert den Beginn eines umwalzenden Neuverstandnisses von Maimonides und seiner arabischen Vorganger im Horizont der platonischen Politischen Philosophie. Dem Buch von 1935 sind 5 thematisch zugehorige Aufsatze beigegeben. Die "Fruhen Schriften" prasentieren 30 Arbeiten aus der Zeit von 1921 1937, darunter zahlreiche in Erstpublikation. Die 2. Auflage ist u.a. um die erstmals transkribierten Marginalien in Strauss Handexemplar von "Philosophie und Gesetz" erweitert.

2015 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "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. Strauss taught that liberalism in its modern form contained within it an intrinsic tendency towards extreme relativism, which in turn led to two types of nihilism. The first was a "brutal" nihilism, expressed in Nazi and Marxist regimes. In "On Tyranny," he wrote that...