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'''Leo Strauss''' is a German-born philosopher. Raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life. He fled to the [[United States]] when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].
'''Leo Strauss''' is a German-born philosopher. Raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life. He fled to the [[United States]] when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Søren Kierkegaard]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], and [[Martin Heidegger]].
Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], Weekly Standard editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former New York Post editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke; and [[Nobel Prize]] winning novelist [[Saul Bellow]].
Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], Weekly Standard editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former New York Post editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke; and [[Nobel Prize]] winning novelist [[Saul Bellow]].
Some of Leo Strauss' main ideas were later popularized in Allan Bloom's influential book ''[[The Closing Of The American Mind]]''.
Some of Leo Strauss' main ideas were later popularized in Allan Bloom's influential book ''[[The Closing Of The American Mind]]''.
Strauss contended that Heidegger, building on the thoughts of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, was "the thinker of our age". "The great achievement of Heidegger was the coherent exposition of the experience of ''Existenz''... Kierkegaard had spoken of existence but within the traditional horizon... Heidegger tried to understand existence out of itself."<ref>Strauss, Leo. Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism.</ref>
===Books===
===Books===