Leo Strauss (/straʊs/ STROWSS, German: [ˈleːoː ˈʃtʁaʊs]; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a 20th century German-American scholar of political...
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Alexandre Kojève (section Friendship with Leo Strauss)
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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Noble lie (section Leo Strauss)
conception of religion to have been very influential in subsequent thought. Leo Strauss noted that thinkers of the first rank, going back to Plato, had raised...
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Neoconservatism (section Leo Strauss and his students)
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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Obscurantism (section Leo Strauss)
In the 20th century, the American conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss, for whom philosophy and politics intertwined, and his neo-conservative...
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seize and maintain power. Even into recent times, some scholars, such as Leo Strauss, have restated the traditional opinion that Machiavelli was a "teacher...
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fund some of the research of refugee nuclear physicist Leo Szilard. During World War II Strauss served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve and rose...
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Historicism (section Leo Strauss)
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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Carl Schmitt (section Dialogue with Leo Strauss)
and political theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Aleksandr Dugin, Reinhart Koselleck, Jürgen Habermas...
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Hong Kong A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), American law professor Leo Loudenslager (1944–1997), American world champion aerobatics aviator Leo Strauss (1899–1973)...
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Leo Strauss, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had considered that, because fools were common, a "socialism of fools" would be a good thing; hence, Strauss...
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Reductio ad Hitlerum (category Leo Strauss)
like Führerprinzip are not part of the association fallacy. Invented by Leo Strauss in 1953, reductio ad Hitlerum takes its name from the term used in logic...
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Look up Strauß in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strauss, Strauß or Straus is a common Germanic surname. Outside Germany and Austria Strauß is usually...
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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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— 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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Norton became acquainted with many of the followers of the philosopher Leo Strauss.[citation needed] In the 1990s, the rise of neoconservatism into public...
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Allan Bloom (category Political scientists who studied under Leo Strauss)
philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell...
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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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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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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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merely subjective assertions. — Zuckert and Zuckert, The truth about Leo Strauss: political philosophy and American democracy Politicians are given power...
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interpretations of Plato and the German-American political philosopher Leo Strauss. Lampert was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received his master's...
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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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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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1994. Strauss, Leo (December 26, 2011). "Jerusalem and Athens". Retrieved 19 February 2024. Gordon, David (October 31, 2022). "DOES LEO STRAUSS CHOOSE...
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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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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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Republic (Plato) (section Strauss and Bloom)
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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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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controversial, revisions, likely made in response to the reaction of Leo Strauss. For Schmitt, politics isn't merely the domestic use of power and an...
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