History of Political Philosophy

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History of Political Philosophy
History of Political Philosophy, first edition.jpg
Cover of the first edition
Editors Leo Strauss
Joseph Cropsey
LanguageEnglish
Subject Political philosophy
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1963
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages980
ISBN 0-226-77710-3
OCLC 879526433
LC Class JA81.H58 1987

History of Political Philosophy is a textbook edited by American political philosophers Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. The book is intended primarily to introduce undergraduate students of political science to political philosophy. It is currently in its third edition.

Contents

Contributors and subjects

Some of the notable contributors include: Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Ralph Lerner, Muhsi Mahdi, James E. Holton, Joseph Cropsey, Harvey Mansfield, and Pierre Hassner. Some of the subjects in the volume include: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, St. Augustine of Hippo, Alfarabi, Moses Maimonides, Niccolò Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Leo Strauss. [1]

References

  1. ↑ Strauss, Leo; Cropsey, Joseph (1987). History of political philosophy (3rd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0226777108.


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