Natural Right and History

ISBN-13: 9780226776941 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 335 str.

Leo Strauss

Opis

In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever.

"Strauss . . . makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves . . . and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant, incisive mind."--John H. Hallowell, American Political Science Review

Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago.

O autorze

Leo Strauss, geb. 1899 in Kirchhain/ Hessen, gest. 1973 in Annapolis/Maryland. 1921 Promotion bei Cassirer in Hamburg, anschließend Studien bei Husserl und Heidegger in Freiburg. 1932-34 Rockefeller Stipendiat in Paris und Cambridge. Hobbes-Forschungen in England. 1938 Übersiedlung in die USA. Lehre an der New School for Social Research in New York. 1949 Ruf als Professor für Politische Philosophie an die University of Chicago, die während der zwei Jahrzehnte seiner Lehr- und Forschungstätigkeit zum wichtigsten Ort der Neubelebung der Politischen Philosophie wird.