Xenophon's Socrates

by Leo Strauss

Overview

Relying exclusively on the texts, Professor Strauss analyzes and compares everyseemingly casual utterance as well as the more formal statements to recover the true Socrates and to determine the character of political philosophy. He investigates its origins, possibilities, and intention against the nonphilosophical background from which it emerged.

AThis is the final and most difficult volume of Strauss= trilogy. Only a Strauss could unravel its apparently simple but actually labyrinthic arguments. B Harry Neumann, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587319655
Publisher:	St. Augustine's Press
Publication date:	09/27/2004
Edition description:	1
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.