by Leo Strauss
edited by Victor Gourevitch and Michael S. Roth
University of Chicago Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-0-226-03352-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-03013-5
Library of Congress Classification PA4494.H6S8 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 321.9

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two.

This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.

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