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Product Description: Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy. Strauss recovered that great tradition of thought largely lost to the West by beginning his study of classical thought with its teaching on politics rather than its metaphysics...read more

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9781580465533 | Univ of Rochester Pr, May 1, 2016, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy.

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Product Description: Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact much closer than was previously thought...read more

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9780226645742 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 2012, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents.

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Product Description: Explores the approach to peaceful religious coexistence offered by Alfarabi, the greatest Islamic political philosopher.

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9780791466896 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 16, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Joshua Parens provides an introduction to the thought of Alfarabi, a tenth-century Muslim political philosopher whose writings are particularly relevant today.

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9780791466902 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Explores the approach to peaceful religious coexistence offered by Alfarabi, the greatest Islamic political philosopher.

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Product Description: The most widely accepted view in the West today, particularly among postmodernists, is that Plato attempted to ground politics on a rational metaphysics and initiated the tradition of foundationalism that has given rise to systems of oppression ranging from racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism to the technological mastery of the earth...read more

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9780791425732 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: The most widely accepted view in the West today, particularly among postmodernists, is that Plato attempted to ground politics on a rational metaphysics and initiated the tradition of foundationalism that has given rise to systems of oppression ranging from racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism to the technological mastery of the earth.

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9780791425749 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The most widely accepted view in the West today, particularly among postmodernists, is that Plato attempted to ground politics on a rational metaphysics and initiated the tradition of foundationalism that has given rise to systems of oppression ranging from racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism to the technological mastery of the earth.

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