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Leo Strauss

Born

in Kirchhain, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire

September 20, 1899

Died

October 18, 1973

Genre

Philosophy, Politics

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Leo Strauss was a 20th century German-American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.
Trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss authored books on Baruch Spinoza and Thomas Hobbes, and articles on Maimonides and Al-Farabi. In the late 1930s, his research focused on the texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosop ...more

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	Natural Right and History 4.01 avg rating — 819 ratings — published 1949 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss (Editor), Joseph Cropsey (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 1963 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City and Man 4.19 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 1964 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Persecution and the Art of Writing 4.09 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1952 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What is Political Philosophy? 4.06 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1959 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Tyranny by Leo Strauss, Victor Gourevitch (Editor), Michael S. Roth (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1963 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts on Machiavelli 4.04 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1958 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Plato's Symposium by Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete 4.20 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (Phoenix Books) by Leo Strauss, Elsa M. Sinclair (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1936 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss by Leo Strauss, Thomas L. Pangle (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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تاريخ الفلسفة السياسية (2 books)
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Leo Strauss,

Joseph Cropsey,

محمود سيد أحمد (Translator),

إمام عبد الفتاح إمام (Editor)

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“One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.”
― Leo Strauss

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“Nihilism is the rejection of the principles of civilisation as such . . . I said civilisation, and not: culture. For I have noticed that many nihilists are great lovers of culture, as distinguished from, and opposed to, civilisation. Besides, the term culture leaves it undetermined what the thing is which is to be cultivated (blood and soil or the mind), whereas the term civilisation designates at once the process of making man a citizen, and not a slave; an inhabitant of cities, and not a rustic; a lover of peace, and not of war; a polite being, and not a ruffian.”
― Leo Strauss

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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

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