Introduction: Leo Strauss.

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Lenzner, Steven J. | Copyright information

For more than a year now, there has been an international frenzy--journalistic, academic, and political--swirling around the name of the political philosopher Leo Strauss and the scholars in and out of the academy who identify with his thought, the Straussians. This frenzy is, in one way, welcome: It has drawn long-overdue attention to Strauss, who during his lifetime somehow managed to be both controversial and obscure, a combination he presumably did not find altogether uncongeni...

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