Persecution and the Art of Writing

Leo Strauss

Free Press

essays by : Walter Berns, Leo Weinstein, Robert Horwitz and Leo Strauss and Herbert J. Storing

Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics

Herbert J. Storing

Walter Berns

Leo Weinstein

Robert Horwitz

Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston

Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not only among historical geographers, but also among American economic historians and historians of religion.

The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1

History

Pines, Shlomo

Moses Maimonides

Americas

University of Chicago Press

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Thoughts on Machiavelli

Leo Strauss (1899-1973) joined the University of Chicago as professor of political philosophy in 1949 and was later named Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in political science. His many books include Liberalism, Ancient and Modern, and The City and Man, both available from the University of Chicago Press.

University of Chicago Press / Midway Reprints, Chicago

This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss's mature work. "[These essays] display the incomparable insight and remarkable range of knowledge that set Strauss's works apart from any other twentieth-century philosopher's."—Charles R. Kesler, National Review

The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss

Politics & Government

This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss's mature work. "[These essays] display the incomparable insight and remarkable range of knowledge that set Strauss's works apart from any other twentieth-century philosopher's."—Charles R. Kesler, National Review

An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays (Culture of Jewish Modernity)

Strauss' views on what political philosophy has been and should be.

Wayne State Univ Pr

Xenophon’s only true Socratic discourse, the Oeconomicus, is a dialogue between Socrates and a gentleman-farmer on the art of household management and the art of farming as practiced on a gentleman’s estate. It is generally acknowledged to be the oldest surviving work devoted to "economics," and it constitutes the classic statement of "economic" thought in ancient Greece. The dialogue examines the roles of husband and wife in the household and the division of labor between them, and considers the duties of the farm steward and the housekeeper. It discusses the goals of efficient management and the means for attaining these goals.

Xenophon's Socratic Discourse

Business & Money

Economics

St. Augustine's Press

»Naturrecht und Geschichte« ist das bekannteste und geschichtlich am weitesten ausgreifende Werk von Leo Strauss. Von Heidegger, mit dem Strauss einen fortwährenden Dialog führt, geht es bis auf die Vorsokratiker zurück. Es hat sein Zentrum in der Auseinandersetzung mit Sokrates und reicht über Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau und Burke bis zur Kritik Max Webers.Aus den Walgreen Lectures hervorgegangen, die er im Oktober 1949 an der University of Chicago hielt, wurde »Naturrecht und Geschichte« das wirkmächtigste Buch von Strauss. Es kombiniert eine Aufsehen erregende Kritik des Historismus und des Positivismus mit dem spektakulär in Szene gesetzten Plädoyer, die klassische Philosophie der Antike einer neuen Prüfung zu unterziehen. Mit seiner Verhandlung von »Ancients and Moderns« am Leitfaden des Naturrechts-Problems wurde es schulbildend. Die philosophische Untersuchung kreist um die Entdeckung der Natur, mit der die Philosophie beginnt, und um den Maßstab, den die Politische Philosophie bereithält, um das Recht der Philosophie zu begründen. Die deutsche Neuübersetzung ist erweitert um Helmut Kuhns Besprechungsaufsatz und Strauss' Antwort auf Kuhn sowie den umfangreichen Essay »Philosophie und Geschichte« von Heinrich Meier.

Naturrecht und Geschichte

Ancient Civilizations

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Persecution and the Art of Writing

Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics

The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1

The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1

Thoughts on Machiavelli

The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss

The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss

An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays (Culture of Jewish Modernity)

Xenophon's Socratic Discourse

Naturrecht und Geschichte