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After attending the Kirchhain Volksschule and the Protestant Rektoratsschule, Leo Strauss was enrolled at the Gymnasium Philippinum (affiliated with the University of Marburg) in nearby Marburg (from which Johannes Althusius and Carl Joachim Friedrich also graduated) in 1912, graduating in 1917.
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.
Jun 11, 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.
“Though German philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973) is referred to as the father of neo-conservatism, Yale political science professor Smith argues that relationship is a 'mountain of nonsense' and that Strauss was 'a friend of liberal democracy—one of the best friends democracy ever had.…'
About the Leo Strauss Center. The Leo Strauss Center seeks to promote the serious study of Leo Strauss’s thought primarily through the preservation and publication of the unpublished written and audio record that he left behind.
Biography. Leo Strauss was born in 1899 in the town of Kirchhain in Hesse, Germany, where his father sold farm equipment. He was raised in an observant Jewish home, though one without much Jewish learning. Strauss graduated from the Gymnasium Philippinum in nearby Marburg in 1917.
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.
May 18, 2018 · STRAUSS, LEO (1899–1973), philosopher and political scientist. Born in Germany, Strauss began his association with the Academy of Jewish Research in Berlin in 1925, and ended it with Hitler's rise to power.
Oct 6, 2011 · Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. It is widely acknowledged that Leo Strauss was an extraordinary scholar and teacher who strove to open up forgotten vistas of philosophical inquiry. Gigantic controversy rages, however, about the sorts of political and social changes, if any, that he hoped to promote.
Jul 18, 2014 · Strauss was one of the pre‐eminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. Most of his work took the form of investigations in the history of political philosophy, but his intentions were not simply those of a historian of ideas.
