About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: John Dewey, Robert Nozick, John C. Calhoun, Kenneth Arrow, William H. Riker, John Rawls, Murray Rothbard, James M. Buchanan, Lysander Spooner, Leo Strauss, Michael Parenti, Ronald Dworkin, Russell Kirk, Roger Masters, Amy Gutmann, Spencer Heath, Andrew Moravcsik, Walt Whitman Rostow, Thomas Pangle, William E. Connolly, Michael Walzer, Graciela Chichilnisky, Steven Levitsky, Brian Patrick Mitchell, Mark Stephen Jendrysik, Graham Fuller, David Prychitko, Robert A. Dahl, Michael J. Shapiro, Charles E. Lindblom, Cynthia Enloe, Benjamin Barber, Sheldon Wolin, Judith N. Shklar, Allan Gibbard, Bruce Ackerman, Richard E. Flathman, Francis Coker, Anne Norton, John Roemer, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Fraser, Bonnie Honig, Josiah Ober, Ian Shapiro, Thomas R. Dye, A.F.K. Organski, David Schmidtz, Jonathan Pool, Corey Robin, Peter Stillman, James David Barber, John Schaar, David Kolb, Joseph Cropsey, William Galston, Michael Taylor. Excerpt: Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 - October 18, 1973) was a political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books. Originally trained in the Neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and later acquainted with phenomenologists such as Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss later focused his research on Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle, and encouraged application of their ideas on contemporary political theory. Leo Strauss was born in the small town of Kirchhain in Hesse-Nassau, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia (part of the German Empire), on September 20, 1899, to Hugo Strauss and Jennie Strauss, nee David. According t...
