The City and Man
The City and Man by Leo Strauss, published by University of Chicago Press on November 15, 1978, is a collection of essays that delve into classical political philosophy. This edition spans 245 pages and is presented in English. The essays focus on key texts such as Aristotle’s Politics, Plato’s Republic, and Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars, aiming to liberate modern political thought from ideological constraints through a thorough examination of these foundational works.
Readers will find that Strauss engages deeply with the philosophical underpinnings of ancient texts, particularly emphasizing Aristotle’s influence on his understanding of antiquity. The essay on Plato offers a comprehensive discussion of his political philosophy, while the exploration of Thucydides highlights the historian’s moral insights and philosophical connections. This book presents a thoughtful analysis of the interplay between history and philosophy, making it a significant contribution to the fields of political science and ancient philosophy.
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The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle’s Politics, Plato’s Republic, and Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the stranglehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate familiarity with the works, but the essay on Aristotle is especially important as one of Strauss’s few writings on the philosopher who largely shaped Strauss’s conception of antiquity. The essay on Plato is a full-scale discussion of Platonic political philosophy, wide in scope yet compact in execution. When discussing Thucydides, Strauss succeeds not only in presenting the historian as a moral thinker of high rank, but in drawing his thought into the orbit of philosophy, and thus indicating a relation of history and philosophy that does not presuppose the absorption of philosophy by history.
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