Leo Strauss

Persecution and the Art of Writing

Strauss' essays on reading esoteric texts, arguing philosophers wrote for different levels of intelligent readers

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Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss

German-American philosopher whose esoteric reading of classical texts argued that great philosophers wrote one message for the few and another for the many. Natural Right and History attacked historicism and relativism. His students became the intellectual godfathers of American neoconservatism.

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