Leo Strauss: Late Works 1960-1973

Comment on W. S. Hudson, “The Weber Thesis Re-examined.” Church History 30, no. 1 (March) 1961: 100-102.

“Relativism.” 1961

• In Relativism and the Study of Man, edited by Helmut Schoeck and J. W. Wiggins, 135-57. Princeton: Van Nostrand 1961.
• Reprinted in The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism 1989.

“Liberal Education and Responsibility” 1962

• “Liberal Education and Responsibility” In Education: The Challenge Ahead,
  edited by C. Scott Fletcher (New York: W. W. Norton, 1962)
• Reprinted in An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss. Edited with an introduction by Hilail Gildin. Wayne State University Press Detroit 1989.

“Zu Mendelssohns ‘Sache Gottes oder die gerettete Vorsehung.'” In Einsichten: Gerhard Krüger zum 60. Geburtstag, 361-75. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann 1962.

“An Epilogue” 1962

In Essays in the Scientific Study of Politics by Herbert Storing. .

Why We Remain Jews? 1962

• Why We Remain Jews: Can Jewish Faith and History Still Speak to Us?
• Lecture to a small audience at the Hillel Foundation
  of the University of Chicago on 4 February 1962.
• In Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity. Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought by Leo Strauss. Edited by Kenneth Hart Green. State University of New York Press, Albany 1997.

The City and Man 1964

• Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia in the Spring of 1962.
  • On Aristotle’s Politics
• On Plato’s Republic
• On Thucydides’ War of The peloponesians and the Athenians
• Extended and Published as The City and Man. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1964.

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“Replies to Schaar and Wolin” (no. 2). American Political Science Review 57, no. 1 (March) 1963: 152-55.

History of Political Philosophy 1963

• History of Political Philosophy. Edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. The University of Chicago Press, Cicago 1963.
• Strauss: Introduction”
  • Reprinted in An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss. Edited with an introduction by Hilail Gildin. Wayne State University Press Detroit 1989.
• Strauss “Plato”
  • Reprinted in An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss. Edited with an introduction by Hilail Gildin. Wayne State University Press Detroit 1989.

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“The Crisis of Our Time” and “The Crisis of Political Philosophy.” In The Predicament Of Modern Politics, edited by Harold J. Spaeth, 41-54, 91-103. Detroit: University of Detroit Press 1964.

Review of C. B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 45, no. 1 (June) 1964: 69-70.

“On the Plan of the Guide of the Perplexed.” In Harry Austryn Wolfson Jubilee Volume, 775-91. Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research 1965.

Review of Samuel I. Mintz: The Hunting of Leviathan. Seventeenth-Century Reactions to the Materialism and Moral Philosophy of Thomas. In Modern Philology, Vol. 62, No. 3. (Feb., 1965), pp. 253-255.

Socrates and Aristophanes 1966

• Socrates and Aristophanes. University of Chicago Press 1966.

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 Jerusalem and Athens. 1967

• “Jerusalem and Athens. Some Preliminary Reflections.” The Frank Cohen Public Lecture in Judaic Affairs. The City College Papers, no. 6. New York: The Library, The City College, The City University of New York 1967.
• “Jerusalem and Athens. Some Introductory Reflections.” Commentary 43:45-57. 1967. Abridged from the Frank Cohen lecture.

Liberal Education and Mass Democracy 1967

• Liberal Education and Mass Democracy. In Higher Education and Modern Democracy: The Crisis of the Few and Many, ed. Robert A. Goldwin. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1967, pp. 73-96.

“John Locke as ‘Authoritarian,'” review of John Locke: Two Tracts on Government, by Philip Abrams, Intercollegiate Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (November-December 1967).

“A Note on Lucretius.” In Natur und Geschichte: Karl Löwith zum 70. Geburtstag, 322-32. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag 1967.

“Notes on Maimonides’ Book of Knowledge.” In Studies in Mysticism and Religion Presented to Gershom G. Scholem, 269-83. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University 1967.

“Natural Law.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 1968.

“Greek Historians.” Review of Metaphysics 21, no. 4 (June) 1968: 656-66.

Liberalism Ancient and Modern 1970

Liberalism Ancient and Modern. New York: Basic Books 1970

• What Is Liberal Education?
• Liberal Education and Responsibility
• The Liberalism of Classical Political Philosophy
• On the Minos
• Notes on Lucretius
• How To Begin To Study The Guide of the Perplexed
• Marsilius of Padua
• An Epilogue
• Preface to Spinozas Critique of Religion
• Perspectives on the Good Society

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“Machiavelli and Classical Literature.” Review of National Literatures 1, no. 1 (Spring) 1970: 7-25.

“On the Euthydemus.” Interpretation 1, no. 1 (Summer) 1970: 1-20.

A Giving of Accounts: Jacob Klein and Leo Strauss (1970)

• St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, on 30 January 1970.
• “A Giving of Accounts” with Jacob Klein. The College (Annapolis and Santa Fe) 22, no. 1 (April): 1-5. 1970
• A Giving of Accounts: Jacob Klein and Leo Strauss. In Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity. Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought

Xenophon’s Socratic Discourse 1970

Xenophon’s Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the “Oeconomicus”. Cornell University Press, 1970.

Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy. 1971

• “Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy.” Interpretation 2, no. 1 (Summer) 1971: 1-9.
• Reprinted in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy. (1983.)

Xenophon’s Socrates. 

• Xenophon’s Socrates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1972.

“Machiavelli.” In History of Political Philosophy, 2d ed., edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. Chicago: Rand McNally 1972.

“Introductory Essay.” In Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism, xxiii-xxxviii. New York: Frederick Ungar 1972.

On Nietzsche (1973)

• Note on the Plan of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 3, nos. 2 and 3 (1973)

The Argument and the Action of Plato’s Laws. 1971-1973

The Argument and the Action of Plato’s Laws. The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London 1975.

• Political Philosophy: Six Essays by Leo Strauss. (1975)
• Reprinted in An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss. Edited with an introduction by Hilail Gildin. Wayne State University Press Detroit 1989.
• Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy. (1983.)
  • 1. Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy
  • 2. On Plato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito
  • 3. On the Euthydemus
  • 4. Preliminary Observations on the Gods in Thucydides’ Work
  • 5. Xenophon’s Anabasis
  • 6. On Natural Law
  • 7. Jerusalem and Athens: Some Preliminary Reflections
  • 8. Note on the Plan of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
  • 9. Notes on Maimonides’ Book of Knowledge
  • 10. Note on Maimonides’ Letter on Astrology
  • 11. Note on Maimonides’ Treatise on the Art of Logic
  • 12. Niccolo Machiavelli
  • 13. Review of C. B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke
  • 14. Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History—Its Universal Significance
  • 15. Introductory Essay for Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism
• The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss – Essays and Lectures by Leo Strauss. (1989)
  • 1. Social Science and Humanism
  • 2. ”Relativism”
  • 3. An Introduction to Heideggerian Existentialism
  • 4. On Classical Political Philosophy
  • 5. Exoteric Teaching
  • 6. Thucydides: The Meaning of Political History
  • 7. The Problem of Socrates: Five Lectures
  • 8. On the Euthyphron
  • 9. How to Begin to Study Medieval Philosophy
  • 10. Progress of Return?

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity. Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought by Leo Strauss. Edited by Kenneth Hart Green. State University of New York Press, Albany 1997.