Natural Right and History  is widely recognized as Strauss’s most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark work. In them, he explores natural right and the relationship between modern philosophers and the thought of the ancient Greek philosophers, as well as the relation of political philosophy to contemporary political science and to major political and historical events, especially the Holocaust and World War II. Previously unpublished in book form, Strauss’s lectures are presented here in a thematic order that mirrors  Natural Right and History  and with interpretive essays by J. A. Colen, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Daniel Tanguay, Nathan Tarcov, and Michael Zuckert that establish their relation to the work. Rounding out the book are copious annotations and notes to facilitate further study.

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Leo Strauss; Svetozar Minkov; J.A. Colen

The Leo Strauss Transcript Series, 2018

United States, United States of America

Chicago, IL, 2018

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Contents 6
Foreword - Michael Zuckert 8
Abbreviations 10
Editors’ Note 12
Introduction 14
1. Introduction to Political Philosophy 36
Leo Strauss on the Relation of Theory to Practice - Nathan Tarcov 38
What Can We Learn from Political Theory? (1942) - Leo Strauss 46
2. The Historical Approach 66
Breaking Free from the Spell of Historicism - Daniel Tanguay 68
Historicism (1941) - Leo Strauss 81
3. Facts and Values 108
Is There a Natural Framework for the Social Sciences? - J. A. Colen 110
The Frame of Reference in the Social Sciences (1945) - Leo Strauss 118
4. Recovering the Classics 128
A Presentation of Exotericism in Classical Political Philosophy - Christopher Lynch 130
On the Study of Classical Political Philosophy (1938) - Leo Strauss 139
5. Modern Natural Right 166
Hobbes as the Founder of Modern Political Philosophy - Svetozar Minkov 168
The Origin of Modern Political Thought (1937) - Leo Strauss - Leo Strauss 176
6. The Crisis of Natural Right 220
Recovering Natural Right - J. A. Colen 222
Natural Right (1946) - Leo Strauss 234
An Afterword 266
Toward Strauss’s Intention and Teaching in Natural Right and History - J. A. Colen 268
Appendix 296
Leo Strauss: Courses at the New School for Social Research - Svetozar Minkov 298
References 310
Index 316

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