Arthur Melzer defends the notion that philosophers of the past concealed elements of their thought through a careful method of writing.

00:15 - 26:35

Melzer discloses the various motives that led political philosophers of the past to employ exoteric and esoteric writing.

26:35 - 54:03

Why did the practice of esoteric writing fall out of favor among philosophers from the nineteenth century onward? Melzer and Kristol discuss.

54:03 - 1:25:45