Philosophy, History, and Tyranny

Timothy W. Burns is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and the editor of Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought. Bryan-Paul Frost is Elias "Bo" Ackal Jr./BORSF Endowed Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the coeditor (with Jeremy J. Mhire) of The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom, also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionTimothy W. Burns and Bryan-Paul Frost 1. The Place of the Strauss-Kojève Debate in the Work of Leo StraussTimothy W. Burns2. The Philosophic Background of Alexandre Kojève’s "Tyranny and Wisdom"Murray S. Y. Bessette3. The Place of the Bible in the Strauss-Kojève DebateDaniel E. Burns 4. Leo Strauss’s Decisive Reply to Alexandre KojèveNasser Behnegar5. Who Won the Strauss-Kojève Debate? The Case for Alexandre Kojève in His Dispute with Leo StraussBryan-Paul Frost6. The Epistolary Exchange between Leo Strauss and Alexandre KojèveMark J. Lutz7. Kojève’s Hegel, Hegel’s Hegel, and Strauss’s Hegel: A Middle Range Approach to the Debate aboutTyranny and TotalitarianismWaller R. Newell8. History, Tyranny, and the Presuppositions of Philosophy: Strauss, Kojève, and Heidegger in DialogueRichard L. Velkley9. The Notion of an End of History: Philosophic Origins and Recent ApplicationsJames H. Nichols, Jr.Appendix A: Critical Edition of Alexandre Kojève,"Tyrannie et sagesse"Emmanuel PatardAppendix B: "Tyranny and Wisdom"Alexandre KojèveContributorsIndex