Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.

Any presentation of political philosophy in the 20th century is radically incomplete without Leo Strauss. The appearance of this collection is particularly important given the relentless but shifting interest in…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This work 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.

In one of his last books, Leo Strauss examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes’ comedies. Looking at 11 plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one…

The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss’s astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a…

The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss’s work. The volume also examines Strauss’s…

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…