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Leo Strauss
Author profile
born
in Kirchhain , Germany
September 20, 1899
died
October 18, 1973
genre
influences
Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Maimonides, Hegel, Cassirer, H...more
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Natural Right and History
— published 1990 — 4 editions |
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History of Political Philosophy
by Leo Strauss , Joseph Cropsey — published 1963 — 7 editions |
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The City and Man
— published 1964 — 5 editions |
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Persecution and the Art of Writing
— published 2009 — 7 editions |
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What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
— published 1959 — 3 editions |
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On Tyranny
by Leo Strauss, Michael S. Roth , Victor Gourevitch — published 1991 — 8 editions |
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Thoughts on Machiavelli
— published 1958 — 4 editions |
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The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss
— published 1989 — 2 editions |
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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis
by Leo Strauss, Elsa M. Sinclair — published 1936 — 4 editions |
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Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
by Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete — published 2001 — 2 editions |
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“The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.”
― Leo Strauss
― Leo Strauss
“A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.”
― Leo Strauss
― Leo Strauss
“Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.”
― Leo Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
― Leo Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
