What Is Political Philosophy? [antikvár]

PREFACEThe matter collected in this volume has all been published before, but not all of it in the English original. "What is Political Philosophy.^" is a revised version of the Judah L. Magnes Lectures, which I delivered at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in December 1954 and January 1955; a Hebrew translation with an English summary was published in lyyun, April 1955; the first lecture was published in Italian translation in II Politico, 1956, No. 2; a part of the essay was published in the Journal of Politics, August 1957. "Political Philosophy and History" was published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, January 1949. "On Classical Political Philosophy" was published in Social Research, February 1945, and republished in Karl de Schweinitz, Jr. and Kenneth W. Thompson, Man and Modem Society (New York: Holt, 1953). "Restatement" was published in French translation in De La Tyrannie, Les Essais, LXIX (Paris: Gallimard, 1954). "How Fârabi read Plato's Lanvs" was published in the third volume of Mélanges Louis Massignon, Damascus, 1957. "Maimonides' Statement on Political Science" was published in the Proceedings of the American Academy for Jeivish Research, 1953. "On the Basis of Hobbes's Political Philosophy" was published in French translation in Critique, April 1954. "Locke's Doctrine of Natural Law" was published in The American Political Science Review, June 1958. "On a Forgotten Kind of Writing" was published in the Chicago Review, Winter-Spring 1954. "Kurt Riezler" is an enlarged version of a memorial lecture delivered at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in