• Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. He spent much of his career as a professor of political...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • British cotton-trader and merchant banker Leo Strauss (1899–1973), American political philosopher Dr. Leo Marvin, in the 1991 American comedy film What...
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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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    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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    Philosophy". Strauss, Leo (2014). Thoughts on Machiavelli. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226230979. Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss "Thoughts On Machiavelli"...
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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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  • widely used among German social democrats. Neoconservative philosopher Leo Strauss argued that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin may have believed that, because...
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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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    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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  • Heinrich Meier (category Leo Strauss scholars)
    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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  • 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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    Desalting. At the University of Chicago, Wolfowitz took two courses with Leo Strauss. He completed his dissertation under Albert Wohlstetter. Wohlstetter...
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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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  • 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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    Bialik, Ahad Ha'am, and Zalman Shazar. In Berlin, Scholem befriended Leo Strauss and corresponded with him throughout his life. He studied mathematical...
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    Reductio ad Hitlerum (category Leo Strauss)
    Führerprinzip are not part of the association fallacy. Formulated by Leo Strauss in 1953, reductio ad Hitlerum takes its name from the term used in logic...
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    hermeneutic phenomenology), Hans-Georg Gadamer (ontological hermeneutics), Leo Strauss (Straussian hermeneutics), Paul Ricœur (hermeneutic phenomenology), Walter...
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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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    Avempace, Ibn Tufail, and Averroes; Maimonides, Albertus Magnus, and Leo Strauss. He was known in the Latin West, as well as the Islamic world. The existing...
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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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  • History of Political Philosophy (category Books by Leo Strauss)
    Political Philosophy is a textbook edited by American political philosophers Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. The book is intended primarily to introduce undergraduate...
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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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    Continental philosophers interested in Platonism in a general sense include Leo Strauss, Simone Weil, and Alain Badiou. Platonism has not only influenced the...
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  • Heidegger and Leo Strauss. It has been translated into French and Chinese. Zank, Michael (3 September 2013). "Review of Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises...
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    the Guide, from Joseph Caspi and Moses Narboni in the 14th century to Leo Strauss and Shlomo Pines in the 20th, proposed and developed tools and methods...
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