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Leo Strauss (1899--1973) was a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago from 1949 to 1969. He also held posts at the New School for Social Research, Claremont McKenna College, and St. John’s College in Annapolis. Born and educated in Germany, he studied and corresponded with some of Europe’s leading intellectual figures of the time.[Read More]
Dec 1, 2010 · Leo Strauss was a twentieth-century German Jewish émigré to the United States whose intellectual corpus spans ancient, medieval and modern political philosophy and includes, among others, studies of Plato, Maimonides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Nietzsche. Strauss wrote mainly as a historian of philosophy and most of his writings take ...
Who was Leo Strauss? Strauss was a German-Jewish émigré, the product of the pre–World War I Gymnasium who studied at several universities, finally taking his doctorate at Hamburg in 1921. He was a research assistant at an institute for Jewish research in Berlin before leaving Germany in 1932 to settle first in England and later in the ...
The Leo Strauss Center seeks to promote the serious study of Leo Strauss’s thought primarily through the preservation and publication of the unpublished written and audio record that he left behind. Leo Strauss is increasingly recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His research stimulated significant ...
May 18, 2018 · Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was the most influential political philosopher of the twentieth century as well as its most extraordinary teacher. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Kirchain, Hessen, Germany, on September 20. Strauss completed a doctorate at Hamburg in 1921 and immigrated to the United States in 1938.
Leo Strauss was born to Hugo and Jenny David Strauss on September 20, 1899, in Kirchhain, Germany, a rural town in Hesse outside the university city of Marburg. Hugo Strauss was a merchant in the grain and wool wholesaling business established by his father, Meyer, and a leading member of the local Jewish community.
Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn (ed. and trans. Martin D. Yaffe) Leo Strauss on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra (ed. Richard Velkley) Leo Strauss on Plato’s Symposium (ed. Seth Benardete) Leo Strauss on Plato’s Euthyphro: The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings, edited by Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Y. Minkov (Penn State ...
