Das Erkenntnisproblem in der philosophischen Lehre Fr. H. Jacobis (On the Problem of Knowledge in the Philosophical Doctrine of F. H. Jacobi) (1921)
Doctoral advisor
Ernst Cassirer
Main interests
Metaphysics
Epistemology
History of philosophy (especially Greek, Islamic, Jewish and continental philosophy)
Philosophy of religion
Political philosophy
Notable ideas
List
Noetic heterogeneity
The ends of politics and philosophy as irreducible to one another
The unresolvable tension between reason and revelation
Criticism of positivism, moral relativism, historicism, and nihilism
The distinction between esoteric and exoteric writing
Reopening the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns
Reductio ad Hitlerum
Leo Strauss (/straʊs/STROWSS, German:[ˈleːoːˈʃtʁaʊs]; 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. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.
Trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss authored books on Spinoza and Hobbes, and articles on Maimonides and Al-Farabi. In the late 1930s, his research focused on the texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy, and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory.
LeoStrauss (/straʊs/ STROWSS, German: [ˈleːoː ˈʃtʁaʊs]; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a 20th century German-American scholar of political...
In the 20th century, the American conservative political philosopher LeoStrauss, for whom philosophy and politics intertwined, and his neo-conservative...
conception of religion to have been very influential in subsequent thought. LeoStrauss noted that thinkers of the first rank, going back to Plato, had raised...
Eugene R. Sheppard, LeoStrauss and the politics of exile: the making of a political philosopher (2005), p. 1. Allan Bloom, "LeoStrauss: September 20, 1899...
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...
and political theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Hayek, LeoStrauss, Hannah Arendt, Aleksandr Dugin, Reinhart Koselleck, Jürgen Habermas...
Look up Strauß in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strauss, Strauß or Straus is a common Germanic surname. Outside Germany and Austria Strauß is usually...
by its historical context, as opposed to assessing it by its merits. LeoStrauss used the term historicism and reportedly termed it the single greatest...
interpretations of Plato and the German-American political philosopher LeoStrauss. Lampert was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received his master's...
Norton became acquainted with many of the followers of the philosopher LeoStrauss.[citation needed] In the 1990s, the rise of neoconservatism into public...
philosopher. He has published on subjects including political theology, LeoStrauss and Carl Schmitt. He led the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation from...
like Führerprinzip are not part of the association fallacy. Invented by LeoStrauss in 1953, reductio ad Hitlerum takes its name from the term used in logic...
LeoStrauss, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had considered that, because fools were common, a "socialism of fools" would be a good thing; hence, Strauss...
on the influence of LeoStrauss within neoconservatism and the George W. Bush administration, "The Essential Fraud of LeoStrauss", was written in March...
LeoStrauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 50–51. LeoStrauss, "Plato", in History of Political Philosophy, ed. Leo Strauss...
Thoughts on Machiavelli is a book by LeoStrauss first published in 1958. The book is a collection of lectures he gave at the University of Chicago in...
merely subjective assertions. — Zuckert and Zuckert, The truth about LeoStrauss: political philosophy and American democracy Politicians are given power...
September 21, 2009). Strauss, Leo. 1958. Thoughts on Machiavelli. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-77702-2. Strauss, Leo. 1987. "Niccolò Machiavelli"...
and the crisis of modernity (SUNY 1997), LeoStrauss as a Modern Jewish thinker, Kenneth Hart Green, LeoStrauss, page 55 Scholem, Gershom. 1981. Walter...
controversial, revisions, likely made in response to the reaction of LeoStrauss. For Schmitt, politics isn't merely the domestic use of power and an...
philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, LeoStrauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell...
articles written by LeoStrauss. The book contains five previously published essays, many of which were significantly altered by Strauss from their original...
Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of LeoStrauss – Essays and Lectures by LeoStrauss, edited by Thomas L. Pangle (Chicago: University of...
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