Leo Strauss

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University of Chicago

Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. From 1949 to 1968, he was professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He authored numerous books, including The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Natural Right and History, and Spinoza’s Critique of Religion, among others.

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The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 1

Moses Maimonides

December 1974

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The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 2

Moses Maimonides

December 1974

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The Guide of the Perplexed

Complete in One Volume

Moses Maimonides

July 2025

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The Concept of the Political

Expanded Edition

Carl Schmitt

May 2007

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The Argument and the Action of Plato’s Laws

Leo Strauss

May 1998

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The City and Man

Leo Strauss

November 1978

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History of Political Philosophy

Leo Strauss

November 1987

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Leo Strauss on Hegel

Leo Strauss

August 2019

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Leo Strauss on Hobbes

Leo Strauss

April 2027

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Leo Strauss on Maimonides

The Complete Writings

Leo Strauss

April 2013

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Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

Leo Strauss

December 2012

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Leo Strauss on Nietzsche’s "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

Leo Strauss

November 2017

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Leo Strauss on Plato’s "Protagoras"

Leo Strauss

May 2022

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Leo Strauss On Plato’s Symposium

Leo Strauss

August 2001

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Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy

Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism

Leo Strauss

July 2018

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Natural Right and History

Leo Strauss

October 1965

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On Tyranny

Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence

Leo Strauss

September 2013

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Persecution and the Art of Writing

Leo Strauss

October 1988

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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes

Its Basis and Its Genesis

Leo Strauss

April 1996

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The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism

An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss

January 1989

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Socrates and Aristophanes

Leo Strauss

November 1996

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Spinoza’s Critique of Religion

Leo Strauss

January 1997

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Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy

Leo Strauss

May 1985

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Thoughts on Machiavelli

Leo Strauss

October 1995

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Toward "Natural Right and History"

Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937–1946

Leo Strauss

March 2018

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What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

Leo Strauss

October 1988

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