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Leon Harold Craig
Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues…
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Leon Harold Craig weaves together philosophy, political science, and literature to offer a radical re-interpretation of Hobbes’s most famous work.
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This innovative work argues that Shakespeare was as great a philosopher as he was a poet, and that his greatness as a poet derived even more from his power as…
A new interpretation of Plato’s Republic. Craig investigates why this dialogue, ostensibly about justice, offers Plato’s fullest account of philosophy and philosophers, and why it is preoccupied with war.
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The Philosopher’s English King offers a close reading of the Henriad, presenting Shakespeare’s teaching on political authority and contributing to the burgeoning scholarship on Shakespeare as a political thinker.
The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America’s leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.
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Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars offer meticulous interpretations of key philosophical works by Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss.
Political Philosophy Comes to Rick’s focuses on reading one of the world’s most watched films, Casablanca, politically. Contributors contend that the popularity of the film lies in its ability to…
