Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss
Born(1899-09-20)September 20, 1899
DiedOctober 18, 1973(1973-10-18) (aged 74)
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Notable work
SpouseMiriam Bernsohn Strauss
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
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ThesisDas Erkenntnisproblem in der philosophischen Lehre Fr. H. Jacobis (On the Problem of Knowledge in the Philosophical Doctrine of F. H. Jacobi) (1921)
Doctoral advisorErnst Cassirer
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Leo Strauss[a] (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an 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.
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