• Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later...
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  • and Jacques Derrida. Kojève had a close and lifelong friendship with Leo Strauss which began when they were philosophy students in Berlin. The two shared...
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  • Eugene R. Sheppard, Leo Strauss and the politics of exile: the making of a political philosopher (2005), p. 1. Allan Bloom, "Leo Strauss: September 20, 1899...
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    In the 20th century, the American conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss and his neo-conservative adherents adopted the notion of government by...
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    seize and maintain power. Even into recent times, some scholars, such as Leo Strauss, have restated the traditional opinion that Machiavelli was a "teacher...
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    Look up Strauß in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strauss, Strauß, or Straus is a common Germanic surname. Outside Germany and Austria Strauß is usually...
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  • Hong Kong A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), American law professor Leo Loudenslager (1944–1997), American world champion aerobatics aviator Leo Strauss (1899–1973)...
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  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: the hidden dialogue, Heinrich Meier, University of Chicago Press 1995, 123 Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: the hidden dialogue...
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  • by its historical context, as opposed to assessing it by its merits. Leo Strauss used the term historicism and reportedly termed it the single greatest...
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    fund some of the research of refugee nuclear physicist Leo Szilard. During World War II, Strauss served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve and rose...
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  • philosopher. He has published on subjects including political theology, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt. He led the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation from...
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    Reductio ad Hitlerum (category Leo Strauss)
    like Führerprinzip are not part of the association fallacy. Invented by Leo Strauss in 1953, reductio ad Hitlerum takes its name from the term used in logic...
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    Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard S. Ruderman. New York: Palgrave, 2014, p. 275. Smith, Steven (2007). Reading Leo Strauss...
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    thinkers, including Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Strauss. Mendes-Flohr held a doctorate from Brandeis University, which was supervised...
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    on the influence of Leo Strauss within neoconservatism and the George W. Bush administration, "The Essential Fraud of Leo Strauss", was written in March...
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  • — translation ed. Eugene O'Neill, 1938 In English prose translation by Leo Strauss (1966), this Greek word is rendered as "oysters-saltfish-skate-shark...
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  • Thoughts on Machiavelli (category Books by Leo Strauss)
    Thoughts on Machiavelli is a book by Leo Strauss first published in 1958. The book is a collection of lectures he gave at the University of Chicago in...
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  • Persecution and the Art of Writing (category Books by Leo Strauss)
    articles written by Leo Strauss. The book contains five previously published essays, many of which were significantly altered by Strauss from their original...
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  • 1994. Strauss, Leo (December 26, 2011). "Jerusalem and Athens". Retrieved 19 February 2024. Gordon, David (October 31, 2022). "DOES LEO STRAUSS CHOOSE...
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  • Leo Strauss, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had considered that, because fools were common, a "socialism of fools" would be a good thing; hence, Strauss...
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    and the crisis of modernity (SUNY 1997), Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish thinker, Kenneth Hart Green, Leo Strauss, page 55 Scholem, Gershom. 1981. Walter...
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  • controversial, revisions, likely made in response to the reaction of Leo Strauss. Bartov, Omer (2000). Mirrors of Destruction : War, Genocide, and Modern...
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    Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss – Essays and Lectures by Leo Strauss, edited by Thomas L. Pangle (Chicago: University of...
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  • merely subjective assertions. — Zuckert and Zuckert, The truth about Leo Strauss: political philosophy and American democracy Politicians are given power...
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  • Leo Strauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 50–51. Leo Strauss, "Plato", in History of Political Philosophy, ed. Leo Strauss...
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    Lake Reuel Marc Gerecht James Woolsey Clifford May Major influences Leo Strauss Bernard Lewis Henry M. Jackson James Burnham John Courtney Murray Organisations...
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  • September 21, 2009). Strauss, Leo. 1958. Thoughts on Machiavelli. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-77702-2. Strauss, Leo. 1987. "Niccolò Machiavelli"...
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    concept of bureaucracy as the state non-private concern. Together with Leo Strauss, Voegelin considered Popper's interpretation to be a gross misunderstanding...
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  • Harry V. Jaffa (category Political scientists who studied under Leo Strauss)
    Kraynak says his "life work was to develop an American application of Leo Strauss's revival of natural-right philosophy against the relativism and nihilism...
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    p. 207. Hesiod, Theogony 507–12; Hard, p. 49 Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, p. 117. Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, p. 117. Ovid, Metamorphoses...
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