Strauss (Leo)

Philosophical lineage including Leo Strauss (1899-1973), a major political philosopher, trained in Hamburg and Marburg, a student of Edmund Husserl. Forced into exile by Nazism (Paris, Cambridge, New York), he taught at the New School and then at the University of Chicago. His rereading of Maimonides, Spinoza, and the Greek classics lastingly influenced American political philosophy.