On tyranny
Subtitle: including the Strauss-Kojève correspondence
By: Leo Strauss ; edited by Victor Gourevitch and Michael S. Roth
Contributors: Kojève, Alexandre, 1902-1968; Roth, Michael S., 1957-; Gourevitch, Victor
Edition: Corrected and expanded edition.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226030135; 9780226033525
Subjects: Correspondence; Philosophy; Despotism; Political science
Description: This title 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 disadvantes of exercising tyranny.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: On Tyranny.; title: Hiero or Tyrannicus  -- Xenophon.; title: On Tyranny  -- Leo Strauss.; title: Notes to On Tyranny -- -- II.; title: The Strauss-Kojeve Debate.; title: Tyranny and Wisdom  -- Alexandre Kojeve.; title: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero  -- Leo Strauss -- III.; title: The Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence.; title: Letters.; title: Editorial Notes.