Leo Strauss was a 20th century German-American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books. Trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss authored books on Baruch Spinoza and Thomas Hobbes, and articles on Maimonides and Al-Farabi. In the late 1930s, his research focused on the texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy, and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory.
my favorites: three waves of modernity, natural right and the historical approach, and progress or return. What is liberal education? is also incredible and a really digestible little entry into Straussian thought and its approach
A great overview to Strauss鈥� thought on political philosophy. The essays touch on the modern condition of political science/philosophy, its relation to the pre-modern, the necessity of the return to the study of classical political philosophy, and other things.