Political Philosophy and the Human Soul

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On the sixty-fifth anniversary of the late Allan Bloom's birth, a distinguished group of his former students honor the memory of this inspiring teacher. Political Philosophy and the Human Soul includes a previously unpublished essay on Isocrates by Bloom; a reminiscence by Werner J. Dannhauser; and essays on Homer, the Bible, Plato, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Lessing, Tocqueville, Flaubert, and Leo Strauss. It will interest all students of political philosophy and literature.