Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and extremely provocative thinkers, are rarely studied together. In this 2006 book, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries…

Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss’s thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy.

Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss’s thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy.

A series of lectures from 1965 in which Strauss laid out his views on political philosophy in the form of an introductory course.

Reorienting the Political examines the reception of two controversial German philosophers, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss, in the Chinese-speaking world. This volume explores the powerful resonance of both thinkers in…

Philosophical texts of the early modern era in which sanctions were imposed on those who entertained deviating views require a particular hermeneutical approach: According to Leo Strauss the interpreter’s task…

Weshalb konnte ein radikaler Kritiker der Moderne und bekennender Platoniker wie der judische Emigrant Leo Strauss (1899-1973) einer der einflussreichsten Theoretiker in der amerikanischen Politikwissenschaft werden? Was halt sein aus…

Strauss’s lectures that led up to his most important work, Natural Right and History.