Leo Strauss: Works 1939-1959

Leo Strauss: Works 1939-1959

On Maimonides 1939

  • Review of Moses Hyamson’s edition of Maimonides, The Mishneh Torah, book 1. Review of Religion 3, no. 4 (May) 1939: 448-56.

The Spirit of Sparta 1939

  • “The Spirit of Sparta or the Taste of Xenophon.” Social Research 6, no. 4 (November) 1939:502-36.

Review of James T. Shotwell, The History of History. Social Research 8, no. 1 (February) 1941:126-27.

Review of John O. Riedl’s edition of Giles of Rome, Errores Philosophorum. Church History 15, no. 1 (March) 1946: 62-63.

German Postwar Philosophy 1940

  • The Living issues of German Postwar Philosophy. In Heinrich Meier: Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem Cambridge University Press 2006.

Persecution and the Art of Writing 1941

  • “Persecution and the Art of Writing.” Social Research, November, 1941, 488-504.
  • Republished in the book: Persecution and the Art of Writing 1952

On The Guide for the Perplexed 1941

  • “The Literary Character of The Guide for the Perplexed.” In Essays on Maimonides, edited by S. W. Baron, Columbia University Press,
    1941, 37-91.
  • Republished in the book: Persecution and the Art of Writing 1952

Seminar on German Nihilism 1941

  • Seminar: Experiences of the Second World War 26.2.1941.  In Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. New School for Social Research.
  • Published as German Nihilism. Interpretation, Spring 1999, Vol. 26, No. 3

Lecture on Political Theory 1942

  • What Can We Learn From Political Theory? Lecture to be delivered in the General Seminar of the Summer Course 1942, July 1942.
  • Published in The Review of Politics 69 (2007), 515–529.

On Classical Political Philosophy 1945

  • “On Classical Political Philosophy,” Social Research, Vol. 12, No. 1 (February 1945).  Reprinted (revised) in What Is Political Philosophy? and in An Introduction to Political Philosophy.

On Book of the Kuzari 1943

  • “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari.” In the Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research XIII, 1943, 47-96.
  • Republished in the book: Persecution and the Art of Writing 1952

How to Study Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise. 1948

  • “How to Study Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise.” In the Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, XVII, 1948, 69-131.
  • Republished in the book: Persecution and the Art of Writing 1952.

The Re-education of Axis Countries 1943

  • The Re-education of Axis Countries Concerning the Jews. Presentation in the annual meeting of the Conference on Jewish Relations, Sunday, November 7,1943, at 8:15 pm at the New School for Social Research.
  • Published in The Review of Politics 69 (2007), 530-538.

Lecture on the Study of Medieval Philosophy 1944

  • How To Study Medieval Philosophy. Lecture to be delivered on May 16, 1944 at the Fourth Institute of Biblical and Post-Biblical Studies.
  • Published in  Interpretation, Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring 1996.

Farabi’s Plato 1945

  • “Farabi’s Plato” Louis Ginzberg Jubilee Volume, American
    Academy for Jewish Research, New York, 1945, 357-393.
  • Used in the Introduction of Persecution and the Art of Writing 1952.

On Plato’s Political Philosophy 1946

“On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy.” Social Research 13, no. 3 (September) 1946: 326-67.

On Rousseau 1947

  • “On the Intention of Rousseau.” Social Research 14, no. 4 (December) 1947: 455-87. A review on George R. Havens’ edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur les sciences et les arts.

Reason and Revelation 1948.

Reason and Revelation. In Heinrich Meier: Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem Cambridge University Press 2006.

On Tyranny 1948

  • On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon’s Hiero. With a Foreword by JohnsonAlvin. Political Science Classics, New York 1948.
  • Mise au point (1954). “Restatement” Interpretation, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Fall 2008).
  • Reprinted as On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon’s Hiero, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence, Victor Gourevitch and Michael S. Roth, eds., University of Chicago Press, 1961, reprinted 1991, 2000.

 

Political Philosophy and History (1946) 1949

  • Political Philosophy and History. Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 10, No. 1. (Jan., 1949), pp. 30-50.
  • A Hebrew translation in Eyoon-Hebrew Journal of Philosophy, I (1946), 129.

Natural Right and History 1949

  • Six Walgreen Foundation Lectures in October, 1949.
  • I. Natural Right and the Historical Approach
    II. Natural Right and the Distinction between Facts and Values
    III. The Origin of the Idea of Natural Right
    IV. Classic Natural Right
    V. Modern Natural Right (A. Hobbes, B. Locke)
    VI. The Crisis of Modern Natural Right (A. Rousseau, B. Burke)
  • Expande version  publishead as Natural Right and History. Chicago University Press, Chicago 1950.
  • On Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Right. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 61, No. 4. (Oct., 1952), pp. 475-502.

Progress or Return? The Contemporary Crisis in Western Civilization 1952

  • Three public lectures at the Hillel House, University of Chicago
    • Two lectures (November 5 and 12, 1952) published edited as Progress or Return? The Contemporary Crisis in Western Civilization. Modern Judaism, Vol. 1, No. 1. (May, 1981), pp. 17-45.
    • Third lecture published in The Independent Journal of Philosophy. Vienna, 1979.
  • All published in An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss. Edited with an introduction by Hilail Gildin. Wayne State University Press Detroit 1989.

On Isaac Husik 1952

  • Introduction, “On Husik’s Work in Medieval Jewish Philosophy.” In Isaac Husik Philosophical Essays: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Coeditor. Basil Blackwell, Oxfrod 1952.
  • Reprinted as Preface to Isaac Husik. Philosophical Essays. 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.

On Collingwood 1952

  • “On Collingwood’s Philosophy of History.” Review of Metaphysics 5, no. 4 (June) 1952: 559-86.

Art of Writing 1952

  • Persecution and the Art of Writing. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press 1953.
  • Persecution and the Art of Writing (1941)
  • The Literary Character of the Guide for the .Perplexed (1941)
  • The Law of Reason in the Kuzari (1943)
  • How to Study Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise (1948)

 

“Walker’s Machiavelli.” Review of Metaphysics 6, no. 3 (March) 1953: 437-46.

On Machiavelli 1953 (1958)

  • Four lectures at the University of Chicago in the fall 1953.
  • Publishead as expanded version Thoughts on Machiavelli. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois 1958.
  1. The Twofold Character of Machiavelli’s Teaching
  2. Machiavelli’s Intention: The Prince (Published also in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 51, No. 1. (Mar., 1957), pp. 13-40.)
  3. Machiavelli’s Intention: The Discourses
  4. Machiavelli’s Teaching

What Is Political Philosophy? (1954-1955)

  • Judah L. Magnes Lectures in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in December,
    1954, and January, 1955.
  • A Hebrew translation with English summary appeared in Zyyun, April, 1955.
  • Revised version published as What Is Political Philosophy? The Journal of Politics, Vol. 19, No. 3. (Aug., 1957), pp. 343-368.

On a Forgetten kind of Writing 1954

  • On a Forgetten kind of Writing. Chicago Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter – Spring, 1954), pp. 64-75.

Social Science and Humanism.1956

  • “Social Science and Humanism.” In The State of the Social Sciences, edited by Leonard D. White, 415-25. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1956..

Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History–Its Universal Significance. Journal of Modern History 29, no. 3 (September) 1957: 306.

Existentialism (1956)

  • Lecture at the Hillel Foundation of the University of Chicago February 1956.
  • “Existentialism.” Two Lectures by Leo Strauss. Edited by Bolotin, Bruell, Pangle. Interpretation, Spring 1995, Vol. 22, No. 3.
  • Heavily edited version: “An Introduction to Heideggerian Existentialism, ” in The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss (Chi
    cago: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Freud on Moses and Monotheism 1958

  • Talk given in spring 1958, at the University of Chicago.
  • “Freud on Moses and Monotheism,” Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, Kenneth Hart Green, ed., State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y 1997, pp. 285–309.

What Is Political Philosophy? and Other Studies 1959

  • What Is Political Philosophy? and Other Studies. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London. 1959.
    • I. What Is Political Philosophy?
    • II. Political Philosophy and History
    • III. On Classical Political Philosophy
    • IV. Restatement on Xenophon’s Hiero
    • V. How Farabi Read Plato’s Laws
    • VI. Maimonides’ Statement on Political Science
    • VII. On the Basis of Hobbe’s Political Philosophy
    • VIII. Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Law
    • IX. On a Forgotten Kind of Writing
    • X. Kurt Riezler

 

Critical Note: Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Law. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 52, No. 2. (Jun., 1958), pp. 490-501

The Three Waves of Modernity 1959

  • “The Three Waves of Modernity.” In An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss. Edited with an introduction by Hilail Gildin. Wayne State University Press Detroit 1989.

What Is Liberal Education? 1959

  • An Address Delivered  at the Tenth Annual Graduation Exercises of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults June 6, 1959.
  • “What Is Liberal Education?” In Education for Public Responsibility, edited by C.
    Scott Fletcher (New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), 43-51.
  • Reprinted An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss. Edited with an introduction by Hilail Gildin. Wayne State University Press Detroit 1989.