History of Political Philosophy
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| Editors | Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
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| Pages | 980 |
| ISBN | 978-0-226-77710-8 |
| OCLC | 879526433 |
| LC Class | JA81.H58 1987 |
History of Political Philosophy is a textbook edited by American political philosophers Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. This book is intended primarily to introduce undergraduate students of political science to political philosophy. It is currently in its third edition.
Contributors and subjects
Some of the notable contributors include: Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Ralph Lerner, Muhsi Mahdi, James 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.