Leo Strauss was a central figure in the 20th century renaissance of political philosophy. 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. These include his revival of the great 'qua[...]

This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. The conservative movement that reached out to Strauss and his legacy was extremely fluid and lacked a self-confident leadership. Conservat[...]

Reorienting the Political examines the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-speaking world. The legacies of both Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the German-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after h[...]

?Die Religionskritik Spinozas?, 1930 von Strauss verfasst, ist der Versuch, in Gestalt einer Interpretation des ?Theologisch-politischen Traktats? und einer Genealogie der modernen Religionskritik den Streit zwischen Aufklärung und Orthodoxie einer eingehenden Überprüfung zu unterziehen. Die drit[...]