![]() ![]() But Pangle's approach and his conclusions are in keeping with those of Strauss, and most readers will judge Pangle's book based on their view of the merits of the Straussian approach. Pangle also includes frequent citations of secondary scholarship, unlike Strauss, including references to many "conventional," i.e., non-Straussian, scholars. ![]() Refreshingly, Pangle does disagree with Strauss on some matters, sometimes explicitly. It is not nearly as obscure as Strauss's late work on Xenophon, making Pangle's book the most accessible Straussian account of Xenophon's Socrates available to us. This is an impressive book, full of fine insights and close observations, clearly and engagingly written. Like his master, Pangle offers close readings of each chapter of Xenophon's work, employing all the techniques familiar to readers of Straussian scholarship. Pangle's book is, in form, method, and substance, a new version of the commentary on Xenophon's Memorabilia published by his teacher, Leo Strauss, as the main part of Strauss's 1972 book Xenophon's Socrates. ![]()
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