Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Leo Strauss
So far I have examined a set of thinkers that could be classified in the same school of thought as “Voegelinian”: Eric Voegelin, Ellis Sandoz, Gerhart Niemeyer,…
So far I have examined a set of thinkers that could be classified in the same school of thought as “Voegelinian”: Eric Voegelin, Ellis Sandoz, Gerhart Niemeyer,…
Faith and Political Philosophy the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964. Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper, ed. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Eric…
The thought of Thomas Hobbes is a living force in philosophic reflection on modern politics. Yet many insist that an era of political philosophy, roughly beginning with…
Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato's Erotic Dialogues. James M. Rhodes. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Although his name and his disciples have dominated American political…
On the advice of your preparatory class teacher, you met Raymond Aron. How did the special relationship you had with him begin? First of all, I probably…
De la bonne société. L. Strauss, E. Voegelin, H. Arendt. Le retour du politique en philosophie. Sylvie Courtine-Denamy. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, "La Nuit Surveillée" series, 2014.…
Leo Strauss: Man of Peace. Robert Howse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Robert Howse, the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU, has set…
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy. Grant N. Havers. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. The work of German expatriate political philosopher Leo Strauss has in…
It feels a little strange to raise the question of Leo Strauss’s relationship to Catholicism when his relationship to Judaism has scarcely been clarified. If we could…
When I first mentioned my plan to speak on the topic of this essay a few years back, I was greeted with guffaws, or at least the…
Modernity and What Has Been Lost. Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss. Pawel Armada and Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, eds. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press / Krakow, The…
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt were all forced to flee Germany when that country fell under the sway of the…
It would take a very fat volume or two to do justice to the subject of Voegelin and his contemporaries. I would like to begin by indicating…
Q. In the letters between Voegelin and Strauss, there are many statements about how they're going to meet in Chicago, or going to meet in New York.…
The fascinating correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin raises more questions than it answers, if merely taken by itself.l To be sure, a number of extremely…