This critical study of the influential political theorist dispels popular myths and reveals the inner logic of his varied and notoriously complex writings. Poli

"All political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the co

This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme

The eminent political theorist’s classic lectures on the history of political philosophy and the problems of historicism and relativism. Leo Strauss is known

A probing study that demystifies the common portrayal of Leo Strauss as the inspiration for American neo-conservativism by tracing his philosophy to its German