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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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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.
Apr 10, 2024 · Leo Strauss (born September 20, 1899, Kirchhain, Germany—died October 18, 1973, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.) was a German-born American political philosopher and interpreter of classical political theory. Strauss served in the German army during World War I.
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Strauss graduated from the Gymnasium Philippinum in nearby Marburg in 1917. In the home in Marburg where Strauss boarded he came into contact with followers of the neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen. At seventeen Strauss became a Zionist, a cause to which he remained devoted until he was thirty.
Dead more than thirty years by now, Strauss was a self-described scholar of the history of political philosophy. He produced fifteen books and many essays on his subject. Although well known and very controversial within his discipline, he never achieved public fame.
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.
David Janssens, Between Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy, Prophecy and Politics in Leo Strauss’s Early Thought (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008); Tussen Athene en Jeruzalem: Filosofie, profetie en politiek bij Leo Strauss translated into English by David Janssens.
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