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Leo Strauss
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This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss’s work is the first devoted to Strauss’s thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it…
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European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.
Examines the work and influence of Leo Strauss in a variety of ways that will be of interest to readers of political philosophy. It will be of particular interest to…
With over 10,000 entries identifying work of hundreds of Strauss’s students, and their students’ students, this bibliography is the most-indeed, the only-comprehensive guide to published writing in the tradition of…
Adi Armon
By analyzing an unpublished seminar Strauss taught with Joseph Cropsey at the University of Chicago in 1960, Armon shows how Strauss’ fragmentary, partial engagement with Marx in writing obscured the…
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Heinrich Meier
Written by one of the most prominent interpreters of Strauss’s thought, this book was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss said was the theme of his studies…
Anne Norton
This provocative book examines the thinking of political theorist Leo Strauss and how his ideas have been appropriated - or misappropriated - for various conservative agendas.
Paul E. Gottfried
This book offers a strikingly original interpretation of Leo Strauss, his ‘political philosophy’, and the connection of both to the American conservative movement. There is nothing essentially ‘conservative’ about what…
Rafael Major
Leo Strauss’ What Is Political Philosophy? addresses almost every major theme in his life’s work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Written by scholars…
Michael P. Zuckert,Catherine H. Zuckert
Leo Strauss and his alleged political influence regarding the Iraq War have in recent years been the subject of significant media attention. In this title, the authors turn their attention…
Rasoul Namazi
The first comprehensive discussion of Leo Strauss’s writings on Islamic political thought, and his reflections on religion, philosophy, and politics in their relationship with wisdom, persecution, divine law, and unbelief…
The first comprehensive discussion of Leo Strauss's writings on Islamic political thought, and his reflections on religion, philosophy, and politics in their relationship with wisdom, persecution, divine law, and unbelief…
Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.
In this book, 19 prominent representatives of each side in the basic division among Strauss’s followers explore his contribution to political philosophy and Jewish thought.
Kenneth L. Deutsch,John A. Murley
The contributors argue that Strauss and the Straussians have identified fundamental crises of modernity and liberal democracy.
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The German Stranger provides a guide to Leo Strauss that situates his thought in the context of National Socialism; by destroying any middle ground between ‘Athens’ and ‘Jerusalem, ’ Strauss…
Stephan Steiner
Stephan Steiner prasentiert eine historisch-biographische Studie zu Leo Strauss, in der er die Kontexte und Genese seiner Politischen Philosophie sichtbar macht. Neben der Verortung in den Konstellationen der Weimarer Republik…
Jeffrey A. Bernstein
Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.
Presents the early published writings of the distinguished political philosopher Leo Strauss, available here for the first time in English. Zank places at the reader’s disposal the young Strauss’s passionate…
Aggie Hirst
The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the context of the decision to invade Iraq in…
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A thorough treatment of Leo Strauss’s controversial interpretation of medieval political thought
Timothy W. Burns
The first book-length study of Leo Strauss’ understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.
Steven B. Smith
Shows that Leo Strauss’ defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and extreme Right. It assesses Strauss’s attempt to direct teaching of…
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S.B. Smith
Depicting Leo Strauss as a friend of liberal democracy - perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had, this title shows that his defense of liberal democracy was closely connected…
Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche’s thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche’s Thus…
This study discusses Carl Schmitt’s publication, in 1928, of The Concept of the Political and the response from Leo Strauss who, in 1932, published a critique of the work. The…
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Harry V. Jaffa
Harry V. Jaffa, one of Strauss’s most influential students and an ardent participant in the internal divisions among Straussians, brings together his key contributions to the battle to define Strauss’s…
Thomas L. Pangle
Leo Strauss’s controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements. This…
Susan Orr
Orr applies Strauss’s own principles of analysis to his pivotal essay Jerusalem and Athens: some Preliminary Reflections . She reveals Strauss’s understanding of religion as more than simply political. Neither…
Grant Havers
Leo Strauss has been simultaneously condemned by the Left as an extreme opponent of liberal democracy and celebrated by the Right as a defender of Western civilization. Rejecting both of…
Carlo Altini
The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.
David McIlwain
This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott’s desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss’s recovery of the universality of philosophical…
