1st edition in stated "2d impression" unclipped dustjacket. 8vo, ix, 327 pages. By the widely influential political philosopher Leo Strauss. Strauss (1899-1973) , an exile from Nazism “originally trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory... He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books. (His) works were read and admired by thinkers as diverse as Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Alexandre Kojève” (Wikipedia, 2016). SUBJECT(S) : Political science -- Philosophy. Despotism. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket. Gorgeous unmarked copy (AC-6-7)