Tác giả: Leo Strauss

Im Mittelpunkt des ersten Bandes steht die Neuedition der Monografie ”Die Religionskritik Spinozas”, in der Strauss den Streit zwischen Aufklärung und Orthodoxie einer eingehenden Untersuchung unte …

Leo Strauss is widely recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of Maimonides. His studies of the medieval Jewish philosopher led to his rediscovery of esotericism and deepened his sense that th …

Moses Mendelssohn (1729 86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controver …

In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss’s examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes’ comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that …

In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contai …

Leo Strauss’s Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors, and it offers an argument on behalf of that philosophy which i …

This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as signifi …

This translation of eighteen virtually unknown early publications provides access for the first time to the origins of Leo Strauss’s thought in the intellectual life of the German Jewish ‘renaissance …

Die weltweite Diskussion und Rezeption des philosophischen Œuvre von Leo Strauss wurde mit dem 2001 vorgelegten, seit langem vergriffenen Band 3 der Gesammelten Schriften auf eine neue Grundlage gest …

»Naturrecht und Geschichte« ist das bekannteste und geschichtlich am weitesten ausgreifende Werk von Leo Strauss. Von Heidegger, mit dem Strauss einen fortwährenden Dialog führt, geht es bis auf die …

Da dove nasce il radicalismo filosofico e politico della Germania? La critica post-nietzschiana della modernità ha contribuito ad aprire la strada al nichilismo dei nazisti? E come superare le aporie …

Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specifi …

L’opera è costituita dal testo delle lezioni tenute da Strauss nel 1963 all’Università di Chicago. In queste lezioni l’autore analizza due importanti opere di Giambattista Vico, l’ Autobiografia&#xa0 …

On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyrann …

One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss’s death in 1973. Ha …

Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza’s scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza’s Theologico-politica …

In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On th …

The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem-the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especial …

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato’s "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive readin …

In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes’s ideas arose not from tradition or science but fro …

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing …

A transcript of Leo Strauss’s key seminars on Plato’s Protagoras. This book offers a transcript of Strauss s seminar on Plato s Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of …