The eminent political theorist’s classic lectures on the history of political philosophy and the problems of historicism and relativism. Leo Strauss is known

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One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the

This critical study of the influential political theorist dispels popular myths and reveals the inner logic of his varied and notoriously complex writings. Poli

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