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THE CITY AND MAN - LEO STRAUSS KARTONIERT (TB)

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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