Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss take the problem of the relation between philosophy and politics as a crucial issue. In both thinkers’ understanding, to examine this problem is necessary to criticize the tradition of ...

This chapter aims to show that Socrates is the answer to the most importantquestion of Leo Strauss? work: is philosophy still possible and necessary? Also, Itattempts to demonstrate that Strauss? heterodox interpretation ...

This work is devoted to Leo Strauss' method of reading Plato's dialogues. We reconstructed it in a pedagogical way, that is, in conjunction with Strauss' famous and controversial interpretation of the Republic, in order ...

Trata-se de um estudo do diagnóstico que o filósofo Leo Strauss realiza sobre a modernidade, em termos de concepções filosóficas e políticas, seguindo, para isso, a elucidação da metáfora da segunda caverna, cunhada pelo ...

Este texto corresponde a la conferencia presentada en ocasión del lanzamiento del libro Las personas del verbo (filosófico), Manuel Cruz (ed.), Barcelona: Herder, 2011, compuesto por seis artículos dedicados cada uno a ...

This article explores the problem of Judaism in the oeuvre of Leo Strauss (1899-1973) and particularly in his 1962 conference at the University of Chicago delivered under the title of "Why We Remain Jews". On one hand, ...