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

Leo Strauss
University of Chicago Press
9780226777153
0-226-77715-4

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 Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished.

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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