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Product details
- ISBN 9780226777191
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 1996
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In one of his last books, Leo Strauss examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy.
