Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, 4)

Book info: Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, 4) (Hardcover, 493 pages) – Brill, 2015. Language: English.

Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought offers clear, accessible essays to assist a new generation of readers in their introduction to Strauss’ writings on the ancients, and to deepen the understanding of those who have already benefitted from his work. Strauss rediscovered esoteric writing. His careful explications of works by classical thinkers― of Socratic political philosophy, pre-Socratic philosophers, and of poets tragic and comic―have therefore opened those works up in a way that had been lost for centuries. Yet Strauss’ writings, especially his later works, make considerable demands on any reader. These essays are written by scholars who bring to bear on their reading of Strauss many years of study. Contributors are: Wayne Ambler, Christopher Baldwin, Amy L. Bonnette, Timothy W. Burns, Eric Buzzetti, Susan Collins, Jonathan F. Culp, Dustin Gish, Robert Goldberg, John C. Koritansky, Mark J. Lutz, Gregory A. McBrayer, James H. Nichols, Jr., Clifford Orwin, Linda R. Rabieh, Michael Rosano, Richard S. Ruderman and Devin Stauffer. Editorial Reviews Review "[T]his volume displays Strauss’s provocative originality, his skill in close reading and his nuanced understanding of dramatic context. (...) [A] welcome handbook to an important and frequently misunderstood thinker." - John Bloxham, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.11.37
"The recently published Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought is both a very useful and an engaging book. It can provide a fruitful introduction to new readers of Leo Strauss, but it also addresses difficult and substantial problems that arise in Strauss’s interpretations. Hence this volume surely is an indispensable reading for every conscientious student of the thought of Strauss (...) The authors of this important book have offered to every reader of Strauss, and perhaps more importantly to students of Lucretius, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle, a precious gift." - Antoine P. St-Hilaire, in: Interpretation, Volume 43, Issue 3 (Spring 2017)
"This book provides a much needed guide to virtually all of Leo Strauss’s writings on Classical political thought. (...) The chapters are of a very high quality. It is particularly helpful to have a synoptic view of Strauss’s oeuvre on the Classics, which would otherwise require a long immersion in his difficult work." - Rodrigo Chacon, in: The Classical Review (Published online 7 September 2017) About the Author Timothy W. Burns, PhD (1994), University of Toronto, is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He has co-authored Introduction To Political Philosophy, authored Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom, and published many articles and book chapters on thinkers from Homer to Nietzsche.