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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. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (1921), he was a research ...
Political philosophy meant for him not merely the philosophical treatment of politics, but the political treatment of philosophy. Strauss once declared his writings to be a contribution to the study of the “sociology of philosophy,” by which he meant the study of philosophers as a class.
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Persistent themes throughout Strauss’ work include the conflict between reason and revelation or “Athens and Jerusalem,” his controversial “rediscovery” of exoteric writing, the differences between ancient and modern political philosophy, and his critiques of historicism, relativism, and Heideggerian existentialism.
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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.
His dissertation, “On the Problem of Knowledge in the Philosophical Doctrine of F. H. Jacobi,” was written under the supervision of Cohen’s former student Ernst Cassirer. Strauss later called the dissertation “a disgraceful performance.”.
