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Leo Strauss (/ s t r aʊ s / STROWSS, German: [ˈleːoː ˈʃtʁaʊs]; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) 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.
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Apr 10, 2024 · Leo Strauss was a German-born American political philosopher and interpreter of classical political theory. Strauss served in the German army during World War I. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (1921), he was a research assistant at the Academy for Jewish Research, Berlin.
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Western Philosophy. Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who became an expert on political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later went to the United States.
Dec 1, 2010 · First published Wed Dec 1, 2010; substantive revision Fri Apr 9, 2021. 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.
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Leo Strauss was born on September 20, 1899, in Kirchhain, Hesse, Germany, a rural town outside the university city of Marburg, to Hugo and Jenny David Strauss. 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. [Read More]
May 18, 2018 · One of the most controversial thinkers of modern times, Leo Strauss (1899-1973), a German Jew, was a Socratic political philosopher. As he considered the civic duty of a Socratic to be to question and criticize reigning dogmas, he aroused bitter opposition from established academic and intellectual authorities.
There is a growing recognition around the world of the need to come to terms with Strauss’s thought. Important books on his thought have been published in recent years. In English: Paweł Armada and Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, eds., Modernity and What Has Been Lost: Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss ( Kraków: Jagiellonian University ...
