Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a Jewish German-American political philosopher who has been greatly influential in America.

Bibliography (by Strauss)

• The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis
• On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero
• Persecution and the Art of Writing
• Natural Right and History
• Thoughts on Machiavelli
• What is Political Philosophy?
• History of Political Philosophy, co-editor
• The City and Man
• Socrates and Aristophanes
• Liberalism Ancient and Modern
• Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the "Oeconomicus"
• Xenophon's Socrates
• The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws
• Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
• Philosophy and Law
• Spinoza's Critique of Religion
• The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism

Writings about Maimonides and Jewish philosophy

• "How to begin to study The Guide of the Perplexed", in "The Guide of the Perplexed" Volume One, Translated by Shlomo Pines, The University of Chicago Press, 1963
• "The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed" in Persecution and the Art of Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952, 38-94.