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German-American political philosopher — esoteric writing and the quarrel between ancients and moderns
University of Chicago; New School for Social Research; St John's College, Annapolis · United States · d. 20 September 1899 (Kirchhain, Hesse) — 18 October 1973 (Annapolis, Maryland)
Left Germany in 1932, taught at the New School from 1938 and at Chicago from 1949 to 1967, and ended at St John's College, Annapolis. Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952) argued that philosophers under threat wrote between the lines; Natural Right and History (1953) set classical natural right against modern historicism. His students became a school, and a controversy. He died in Annapolis on 18 October 1973.
Leo Strauss was born on 20 September 1899, Richard Montague in 1930, Gillian Rose in 1947 and Adrian Piper in 1948; Annie Besant died on the date in 1933. Four births and a death, and between them a quarrel about whether meaning is something hidden between the lines or something fully on the surface.
Leo Strauss
