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Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss 1899-1973, American philosopher, b. Hesse, Germany. Strauss fled the Nazis and in 1938 came to the United States, where he taught at the New School in New York City (1938-48) and the Univ. of Chicago (1949-68). He is known for his often controversial interpretations of political... Read more |
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Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss Born: February 26, 1829Buttenheim, Germany Died: September 26, 1902San Francisco, CaliforniaFounder, Levi Strauss & Company Levi Strauss's life is one of the great examples of the American immigrant success story. Through hard work, the willingness to take risks, and... Read more |
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Levi Strauss Co
Levi Strauss & Co. 1155 Battery StreetSan Francisco, California 94111U.S.A.(415) 544-6000Fax: (415) 544-1693 Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Levi Strauss Associates Inc. Incorporated: 1890Employees: 37,648Sales: $6.7 billion (1995)SICs: 2325 Men Read more |
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Franz Josef Strauss
Franz Josef Strauss , 1915-88, West German political figure, leader of the Christian Social Union. He became prominent in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democratic Union) after World War II. Elected to the Bundestag in 1949, he became (1956) minister of... Read more |
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waltz
waltz romantic dance in moderate triple time. It evolved from the German Ländler and became popular in the 18th cent. The dance is smooth, graceful, and vital in performance. The waltz in Vicente Martin's opera Una cosa rara, produced in Vienna (1776), is regarded as the first Viennese... Read more |
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Strauss
Strauss , family of Viennese musicians. Johann Strauss, 1804-49, learned to play the violin against his parents' wishes. In 1819 he joined the dance orchestra of Josef Lanner (1801-43), whom he later rivaled. In 1826 Strauss organized his own orchestra. His waltzes won him fame that was extended... Read more |
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Franz von Lenbach
Franz von Lenbach , 1836-1904, German portrait painter. He studied in Munich and Rome and from 1863 to 1868 worked as a copyist of old masters in Italy and Spain. His early work was in genre, but later he devoted himself to portraiture, in a style derivative of Titian and Rembrandt. Lenbach executed... Read more |
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Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss , 1896-1974, American financier, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), b. Charleston, W.Va. In World War I he served under Herbert Hoover on the Belgian Relief Commission and the Allied Supreme Economic Council. He was a special assistant to Secretary of the... Read more |
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Robert Haas
Robert Haas 1942– Chairman of the board, Levi Strauss & Company Nationality: American. Born: 1942, in San Francisco, California. Education: University of California, Berkeley, BS, 1964; Harvard Graduate School of Business, MBA, 1968. Family: Son of Walter Haas Jr. (chief... Read more |
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David Friedrich Strauss
David Friedrich Strauss , 1808-74, German theologian and philosopher. In Berlin he studied (1831-32) Hegelian philosophy. As tutor at Tübingen he lectured on Hegel, modern philosophy, and Plato. His Das Leben Jesu (2 vol., 1835-36) aroused much interest because it applied the "myth theory" ... Read more |
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Che vuoi? Politico-philosophical remarks on Leo Strauss' Spinoza.
...s Critique of Religion opens, finally...predicament' (Strauss 1962: 1). This...Spinozian problematic, Strauss confesses, has...Nevertheless, to consider Strauss' Spinozabuch in...fraught thing, for reasons that need to be...start. The first ... |
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Ignoble liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the philosophy of mass...
...appear to know what Leo Strauss had said about the philosophers...for their ignorance of Strauss's work. Leo Strauss is more difficult to...involuted and eloquent. The reason for the difficulty grows...technique. Every new ... |
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Who was Leo Strauss?(Political Philosophy)
...controversies surrounding Strauss must be traced to...such fashions, how Strauss's influence will...difficult to predict. Leo Strauss was born in Kirchhain...s Critique of Religion. After completing...relation between Reason ... |
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Jerusalem and Athens: Reason and Revelation in the Works of Leo Strauss.
...the subject of reason and revelation...theme in all of Strauss's works, as...other works of Strauss: "Progress...Introductory Essay" Strauss wrote for the...s Critique of Religion (1965); and...the thought of Leo ... |
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Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo...
...of the thought of Leo Strauss. The entire book...s Critique of Religion, but also those...scholarly literature on Strauss is reviewed in the...of Nietzsche on Strauss. The first three...The Crisis of Reason and Revelation ... |
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Philosophers and kings; Lexington.(Leo Strauss, the new toast of Washington, DC)
...Oil or old-time religion? Each has had their...suspect of all: Leo Strauss, a political philosopher...posted a profile of Strauss entitled "Fascist...Who on earth was Leo Strauss? The...spread the word. One ... |
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Meier, Heinrich. Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem.(Book review)
...MEIER, Heinrich. Leo Strauss and the Theologico...dramatic tension of Leo Strauss's thought lies...that philosophy and religion were profoundly...security in the life of reason. Meier, following...political or prudential ... |
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Tanguay, Daniel. Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review)
...TANGUAY, Daniel. Leo Strauss: An Intellectual...s critique of religion, upon which...thereby giving his reasons for the ultimate...108; compare Strauss's more cautious...the problem, Strauss had to reject...accessible to ... |
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Leo Strauss and the American Right.
...intellectuals. "Strauss understood both...was therefore a reason for disquiet" From...thinkers have invoked Strauss' name in arguing...political utility of religion that he is blind...impossible to picture Leo Strauss, a ... |
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Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem.(Book review)
Leo Strauss and the Theologico...Meier's study of Leo Strauss's work contains...life by politics and religion as well as the philosophical...In his lecture on reason and revelation...Christianity for a number of ... |
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