Political PhilosophyEssay · 1959
What Is Political Philosophy?
Leo Strauss
Strauss published this in 1959 with the Free Press in Glencoe, Illinois. The title essay presents political philosophy as the attempt to replace opinion about political things with knowledge of them, and the volume gathers further studies and reviews around it. The link is to the University of Chicago Press edition, which is the whole collection rather than the title essay alone.
Why you should read this
Strauss's title essay defines political philosophy as the search for the best political order, distinguishing it sharply from value-free political science and from historicist relativism. A shorter entry point into Straussian thought before tackling his longer, harder books.
- Field
- Political Philosophy
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1959
- Themes
- Political Philosophy
