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The history of political philosophy

A review of Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice by Paul Cartledge. A review of Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy by Peter Ahrensdorf. Anders Mikkelsen on the politics of plunder in Plato's Republic. From Animus, a special issue on Greek tragedy, including Anitra Laycock on Poetry & Polity: Tragic Perspectives on the Nature of Political Association. A review of The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics by Paula Gottlieb. A review of Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates by Ronna Burger. From the CSSR, a symposium on the Ancients/Moderns distinction, including Gary Glenn (AFAM): Whether Strauss’ Ancients/Moderns Reading of the History of Political Philosophy Unjustly Depreciates Christianity; and James Schall (Georgetown): On The Conquest of Human Nature: Ancients, Moderns — Medievals, Futures. A review of Between Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy, Prophecy, and Politics in Leo Strauss’s Early Thought by David Janssens. A review of Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages to 1050 by Francis Oakley. A review of The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought by Eric Nelson. Manfred Holler (Hamburg): Niccolo Machiavelli on Power. A review of Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner. A review of Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin. A review of Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty by Paul Rahe (and more). A review of The Adam Smith Problem by Dogan Gocman. From Animus, a special issue on the modern state, including Neil Robertson (King’s): Rousseau, Montesquieu and the Origins of Inequality. The first chapter from The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory by Axel Honneth. The first chapter from Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto by W. G. Runciman.