Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America

This is the first book-length examination of the impact Leo Strauss’ immigration to the United States had on this thinking.  Adi Armon weaves together a close reading of unpublished seminars Strauss taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s an

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Adi Armon

Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America

Adi Armon

Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America

Adi Armon University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI, USA Translated by Michelle Bubis Jerusalem, Israel

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To my mother and father

Acknowledgements

Ten years ago, I first entered the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library to burrow into the Strauss archive. I discovered a treasure trove of unpublished documents—audio tapes, transcriptions of lectures and seminars, letters, notebooks, and more. Thanks to the Leo Strauss Center, some of these are now available online, allowing researchers to travel back in time and attend a course with Strauss. The archive personally transported me back to several important seminars and courses given by Strauss: on Hegel, Nietzsche, Thucydides, and—of particular interest to my research—on Marx. This discovery led me to a reorientation of the doctoral dissertation I had just begun writing at the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I had planned to compare Strauss’ understanding of Judaism and Jewishness with that of Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin. Instead, the archive led me down a completely different path, to the Cold W