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  • Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy

    by Leo Strauss ...
    The award–winning philosopher explores the conflict between philosophy and political society through a series of essays.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 time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973. Having chosen the title for the book, he selected the most important writings of ... Read more

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  • Socrates Founding Political Philosophy in Xenophon's "Economist", "Symposium", and "Apology"

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    The oeuvre of the Greek historian Xenophon, whose works stand with those of Plato as essential accounts of the teachings of Socrates, has seen a new surge of attention after decades in the shadows. And no one has done more in recent years to spearhead the revival than Thomas L. Pangle. Here, Pangle provides a sequel to his study of Xenophon's longest account of Socrates, the Memorabilia, expanding ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Socratic Way of Life

    Xenophon's "Memorabilia"

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citizen philosopher Socrates, founder of political philosophy.In the first part of the book, Pangle analyzes Xenophon's defense of Socrates against the two ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    With Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics," Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the Politics originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristotle, and scholars have relied on that fact to explain seeming inconsistencies and instances of discontinuity throughout the text. Breaking from this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

    The Essentials

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    Series series Agora Editions
    Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History brings together the works of Georg W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), one of the greatest philosophers of history, who, prior to his death, did not execute a treatise setting forth his philosophy of world history. All that remains are fragmented and truncated manuscript materials and meticulous student transcripts from his lectures on the philosophy of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker"

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Leo Strauss

    An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought
    Leo Strauss's controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence. Now their impact is emerging into broad daylight, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, often wildly speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements.This book, written as a corrective, is the first accurate, non-polemical, comprehensive guide to Strauss's mature ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Key Texts of Political Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Thomas L. Pangle, Timothy W. Burns ...
    This book introduces readers to analytical interpretation of seminal writings and thinkers in the history of political thought, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Chronologically arranged, each chapter in the book is devoted to the work of a single thinker. The selected texts ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • In Search of Humanity

    Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

    by Andrea Radasanu, Timothy W. Burns, Brent Edwin Cusher, Donald Forbes, Bryan-Paul Frost, Ran Halévi, Henry Higuera, Robert Howse, S. N. Jaffe, Michael S. Kochin0, Noah Lawrence1, Mark J. Lutz2, Arthur M. Melzer3, Jeffrey Metzger4, Miguel Morgado5, Waller R. Newell6, Michael Palmer7, Lorraine Smith Pangle8, Thomas L. Pangle9, Marc F. Plattner0, Linda R. Rabieh1, Michael Rosano2, Susan Meld Shell3, Ryan K. Balot4, Paul A. Cantor5, Steven Forde6, Kenneth Hart Green7, L. Joseph Hebert Jr.8, Christopher Kelly9, William B. Parsons0, Diana J. Schaub1, Nathan Tarcov2, Richard Velkley3 ...
    This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship

    by Derek Barker, Richard Boyd, Paul Carresse, Brian Danoff, Albert W. Dzur, Khalil M. Habib, L. Joseph Hebert Jr., Peter Augustine Lawler, Susan McWilliams Barndt0, Thomas L. Pangle1, William B. Parsons Jr.2, Jon D. Schaff3, F Flagg Taylor IV4, Aristide Tessitore5, Alexis De Tocqueville6, Conor Williams7, Thad Williamson8 ...
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., have brought together a diverse set of essays revealing ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    In this book noted scholar Thomas L. Pangle brings back a lost and crucial dimension of political theory: the mutually illuminating encounter between skeptically rationalist political philosophy and faith-based political theology guided ultimately by the authority of the Bible. Focusing on the chapters of Genesis in which the foundation of the Bible is laid, Pangle provides an interpretive reading ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Theban Plays

    "Oedipus the Tyrant"; "Oedipus at Colonus"; "Antigone"

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by Peter J. Ahrensdorf, Thomas L. Pangle ...
    Series series Agora Editions
    "These excellent translations will serve a useful purpose in the classroom in the hands of serious students of the profound relationship between literary wisdom and ethical-political thought." Leslie Rubin, Duquesne University, editor of Justice v. Law in Greek Political ThoughtThe timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles—Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—have fascinated and moved ... Read more

    $16.19 USD