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Title: Thoughts on Machiavelli by Leo Strauss ISBN: 0-226-77702-2 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Persecution and the Art of Machiavelli
Comment: Yes, Leo Strauss has the guts to say that Machiavelli is evil, and through a scintillating display of close reading, Strauss silently points, and nods, in the direction of the solution to why Machiavelli is evil. The other reviewers accurately convey the sense of mystery and sophistication about this text, but by reading Strauss's book "Persecution and the Art of Writing", the reader of "Thoughts on Machiavelli" may be able to arrive at the solution to the mystery.
A brilliant book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wheels within wheels
Comment: So, says Strauss, Machiavelli is evil? Is that so? What do we mean by this? Is this not all too comforting an answer to a question that Strauss hammers the complexity of throughout his book? The problem of this book is one esoteric writer writing about another. You sit there with Strauss on one knee and Machiavelli on the other as Strauss remorselessly "blows his cover." Machiavelli has something to hide and Strauss is intent on showing what it is. The question that constantly recurrs is: What has Strauss to hide? Nobody is this adept at ferreting out others' hidden meanings without having hidden meanings themselves. Especially not when their doctrine is that philosophy is a series of hidden meanings reserved for the philosopher and encoded so as to be missed even by the scholars. It, in other words, takes a thief to catch a thief. So Strauss catches Machiavelli leaving us to wonder what he has also stolen from us in the process
Rating: 5
Summary: Towering achievement
Comment: One of the best and most important books of the 20th Century. I know that sounds ridiculous (shouldn't it be famous then?) but it's true. Strauss traces the beginnings of modernity to a concious design of Machiavelli's to overthrow all previous authority in favor of "new modes and orders." In other words, according to Strauss, the world we live in is not only not the result of imperonsal, inevitable "progress," it was made possible by one man who knew exactly what he was doing.
Through a detailed analysis of Machiavelli's books, Strauss shows how every important feature of modern thought is either directly traceable to Machiavelli, or else depends on a foundation he built. More importantly, Strauss outlines the differences between Machiavellism and what Machiavelli sought to replace--thereby making possible a (qualified) return to the superior understanding of pre-Machiavellian philosophy.
Such a return becomes more necessary every day, as the contradictions and prodigious errors of modern thought continue to erode civilization. Strauss alone has shown that return is possible--and this book is an indespenible guide for how to get there.
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Title: Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss ISBN: 0226776948 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.29 |
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Title: On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence by Leo Strauss, Alexandre Kojeve, Victor Gourevitch, Michael S. Roth ISBN: 0226776875 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: History of Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey ISBN: 0226777103 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss ISBN: 0226777111 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: What Is Political Philosophy: And Other Studies by Leo Strauss ISBN: 0226777138 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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