Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism

The eminent political theorist's classic lectures on the history of political philosophy and the problems of historicism and relativism.

Leo Strauss is known for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars. In 1965, however, Strauss offered an introductory course on political philosophy at the University of Chicago. U...