Leo Strauss on Plato’s Euthyphro

“Kerber and Minkov have set the standard for publishing Strauss’s Nachlass.”

—Steven H. Frankel Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy

“Strauss’s lecture is a masterclass on how to interpret a Platonic dialogue, and the essays by Kerber, Minkov, and Ambler are models of analyzing Strauss’s writings.”

—Sotirios A. Barber The Review of Politics

“[This volume] brings to light many interesting juxtapositions and many more fascinating questions from an intellect to which I owe a great deal. . . .it will be a prize possession among followers of [Plato].”

—Colin Redemer Ad Fontes

“This volume is the result of philological work of the highest quality and has the merit of offering materials undoubtedly of interest for both historical and philosophical purposes. Especially from the latter point of view the volume offers new elements useful in the construction of the argument in favor of philosophy in the dispute between Athens and Jerusalem.”

—Marco Menon Filosofia morale / Moral Philosophy

“For readers without prior familiarity with Strauss’s writings, the book offers, beyond its comprehensive and important interpretation of Plato’s dialogue, an excellent introduction to Strauss’s scholarship and philosophical concerns. For those with such familiarity, it offers a provocative and illuminating discussion of the problem of reason and revelation, and an unprecedented look ‘behind the scenes’ at Strauss’s process of interpreting a Platonic dialogue.”

—Benjamin Lorch Bryn Mawr Classical Review

“Characterised by meticulous scholarship of the highest order, this book is an important addition to our understanding of Plato’s Euthyphro, through the eyes of a preeminent philosopher.”

—Cliff Cunningham Sun News Austin

“A welcome volume of Strauss’s scattered writings on a key Platonic dialogue.”

—Glenn Ellmers The New Criterion

“The present volume manages to be clear, focused, succinct, and approachable, while providing tremendous insight and remaining unabashedly complex.”

—Colin David Pears The Review of Metaphysics

“This material will supplement aspects of Strauss’s readings of Plato, and give Euthyphro an appropriately more central place in a life’s work whose fundamental theme Strauss insisted remained ‘the theological-political problem’.”

—Paul O’Mahoney Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought

“Leo Strauss on Plato’s ‘Euthyphro’ is a most valuable work of scholarship and it will prove to be of tremendous interest, and even indispensable, to scholars and students of political philosophy, religion, philosophy, and classics as a whole and of Leo Strauss and Plato in particular.”

—Peter Ahrensdorf, author of Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy: Encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche

“Strauss’s notes on the Euthyphro, which have never been published, offer important insights into his thinking, and will make a splash in the world of Strauss studies. The excellent interpretive essays in the volume should draw attention in their own right.”

—Devin Stauffer, author of Hobbes's Kingdom of Light