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Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception Series Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou VOLUME 4 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bccr Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought Edited by Timothy W. Burns LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: The cover photos, taken by Hannes Kerber, are of the handwritten manuscript of Leo Strauss’ “Exoteric Teaching,” dated December, 1939, in the Leo Strauss archives at the University of Chicago. They are used with permission of Hannes Kerber and permission of Nathan Tarcov, Literary Executor of the Estate of Leo Strauss. This publication has been typeset in the multilingual ‘Brill’ typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 2213-1426 isbn 978-90-04-24335-4 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-29983-2 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Contents Acknowledgement ix About the Contributors x Editor’s Introduction Leo Strauss’ Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy 1 Timothy W. Burns Part 1 Pre-Socratic Thought 1 On “The Origin of the Idea of Natural Right” in Natural Right and History 33 Gregory A. McBrayer 2 Reading Thucydides with Leo Strauss 50 Clifford Orwin 3 On Leo Strauss’ “Notes on Lucretius” 76 James H. Nichols, Jr. Part 2 Classical Political Philosophy 4 Leo Strauss’ “The Liberalism of Classical Political Philosophy” 97 Timothy W. Burns 5 On “Classic Natural Right” in Natural Right and History 128 Devin Stauffer 6 “On Collingwood’s Philosophy of History” and “On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy” 147 Jonathan F. Culp vi contents Part 3 Aristophanes 7 Learning to Love Aristophanes: Reading Aristophanes with Strauss 169 Christopher Baldwin Part 4 Xenophon 8 On Leo Strauss’ Presentation of Xenophon’s Political Philosophy in “The Problem of Socrates” 193 Richard S. Ruderman 9 “Through the Keyhole”: Leo Strauss’ Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 213 Richard S. Ruderman 10 A Guide to the Study of Leo Strauss’ On Tyranny 227 Eric Buzzetti 11 Socratic Rhetoric and Political Philosophy: Leo Strauss on Xenophon’s Symposium 258 Dustin Gish 12 Strauss on the Memorabilia: Xenophon’s Socrates 285 Amy L. Bonnette 13 Strauss on Xenophon’s Anabasis 13a The Difference between Socrates and Xenophon in Leo Strauss’ Account of Xenophon’s Anabasis 305 Devin Stauffer 13b Divine Justice in Strauss’ Anabasis 314 Timothy W. Burns contents vii Part 5 Plato 14 Leo Strauss on the Politics of Plato’s Republic 323 Linda R. Rabieh 15 Philosophy and Law: On the Gravest Question in Plato’s Minos 344 Robert Goldberg 16 An Introduction to Strauss’ “An Untitled Lecture on Plato’s Euthyphron” 361 Wayne Ambler 17 Eristics, Protreptics, and (Dialectics): Strauss on Plato’s Euthydemos 379 Michael Rosano 18 Strauss on the Apology and Crito 402 John C. Koritansky 19 The Argument and the Action of Plato’s Laws 424 Mark J. Lutz Part 6 Aristotle 20 Aristotle’s Political Science, Common Sense, and the Socratic Tradition in The City and Man 443 Susan D. Collins Index of Proper Names 473 Subject Index 477 Acknowledgement Chapter nine of this volume, “ ‘Through the Keyhole’: Leo Strauss’ Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lace deamonians,” was originally published in 2014 as chapter ten (pp. 191–201) of Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s, Martin D. Yaffe and Richard S. Ruderman, editors (New York, NY: Palgrave). It is here reproduced with the permission of Palgrave MacMillan. About the Contributors Wayne Ambler is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Herbst Program of Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has written on Aristotle, Xenophon, and Aristophanes and authored translations of Xenophon’s Anabasis of Cyrus and Education of Cyrus and of several of Aristophanes plays. Christopher Baldwin received his BA from Kenyon College and his PhD from the University of Toronto. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southeast Missouri State University. His previous publications include essays and articles on Aristophanes, Benjamin Franklin, Nietzsche, Leo Strauss, and Camus. He is currently writing a book-length study of Nietzsche. Amy L. Bonnette is a visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at Boston College. She has translated Xenophon’s Memorabilia (Cornell University Press, 1994), and has published essays on Aristophanes as well as Jane Austen. She is currently completing a new translation of Xenophon’s treatise On Horsemanship, with an introductory essay. Timothy W. Burns is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is author of Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom, co-author (with Thomas L. Pangle) of Introduction To Political Philosophy, editor of After History? Francis Fukuyama and his Critics, editor of Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle, and co-editor (with Bryan-Paul Frost) of Philosophy, History, and Tyranny: Reexamining the Debate Between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève. He is translator of Marcellinus’ “Life of Thucydides,” and author of articles on thinkers from Homer to Nietzsche. Eric Buzzetti is Associate Professor and Principal (Chair) of the Liberal Arts College at Concordia University (Montreal). He specializes in classical political philoso- phy and is the author of Xenophon the Socratic Prince: The Argument of the Anabasis of Cyrus (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
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