Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium：柏拉图《会饮》疏解

FromLibraryJournalInfall1959,StraussofferedacourseattheUniversityofChicagotitled"Plato'sPoliticalPhilosophy,"duringwhichhelecturedontheSymposium.Itwassuggestedshortlyafterthatthelecturesbereworkedandpublished,andStraussagreed.Benardete(classics,NewYorkUniv.)workedonthemanuscript,butStrausswasnotsatisfiedwiththeresults,andtheprojectlanguisheduntil1999,whenBenardetepickeditupagainandcompletedit.Theresultingpublicationisnotonlyanexcellentanalysisof,andintroductionto,theSymposiumbutatextthatmirrorsthemindandskillsofarenownedteacher.Straussprovidesadetailedandcarefulreadingofthedialog,togetherwithacogentanalysisofitsplaceinPlato'swork,thenatureofEros,thetensionbetweenphilosophyandpoetry,andotherrelatedtopics.Thisisavaluableadditiontolibrariesthatsupportprogramsinphilosophyand/orpoliticalstudies.TerrySkeats,Bishop'sUniv.Lib.,Lennoxville,QuebecCopyright2001ReedBusinessInformation,Inc.--ThistextreferstotheHardcoveredition.ProductDescriptionThefirstmajorpieceofunpublishedworkbyLeoStrausstoappearinmorethanthirtyyears,thisvolumeoffersthepublictheunprecedentedexperienceofencounteringthisrenownedscholarashisstudentsdid.Givenasacourseinautumn1959underthetitle"Plato'sPoliticalPhilosophy,"theseprovocativelectures—untilnow,neverpublished,butinsteadpasseddownfromonegenerationofstudentstothenext—showStraussathissubtleandinsightfulbest.