Straussian Book List
2. 
Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)
by:
Thomas L. Pangle
3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings 
6. 
The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (Phoenix Books)
by:
Leo Strauss
3.91 avg rating — 111 ratings 7. 
The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss
by:
Leo Strauss
4.04 avg rating — 100 ratings 8. 
The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy
by:
Seth Benardete
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 
18. 
Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964
by:
Peter Emberley
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings 19. 
Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors
by:
Leo Strauss
4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings 20. 
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
by:
Arthur M. Melzer
4.18 avg rating — 168 ratings 
22. 
Jewish Philosophy & the Crisis of Modernity: Essays & Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought
by:
Leo Strauss
4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete
by:
Seth Benardete
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus
by:
Seth Benardete
4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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Plato's "Laws": The Discovery of Being
by:
Seth Benardete
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Plato's Dialogue on Friendship: An Interpretation of the Lysis
by:
Plato
3.60 avg rating — 1,680 ratings 
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The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues
by:
Thomas L. Pangle
4.64 avg rating — 44 ratings 45. 
The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings of Ancient Poetry and Philosophy
by:
Seth Benardete
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 46. 
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Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism: A Commentary on The Spirit of the Laws
by:
Thomas L. Pangle
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 48. 
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Maimonides' Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief
by:
Ralph Lerner
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the "Nicomachean Ethics"
by:
Ronna Burger
3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings 56. 
Citizens and Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle's Politics
by:
Mary P. Nichols
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 57. 
Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Between the State and Islam (Woodrow Wilson Center Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
63. 
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
by:
Harry V. Jaffa
4.32 avg rating — 212 ratings 63. 
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Leo Strauss on Hegel (The Leo Strauss Transcript Series)
by:
Leo Strauss
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 68. 
Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment
by:
Ralph Lerner
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 68. 
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The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
by:
Seth Benardete
4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings 72. 
Xenophon's Sparta: An Introduction (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum, 98)
by:
Gerald Proietti
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 73. 
Copp’d Hills Towards Heaven Shakespeare and the Classical Polity (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 32)
by:
Howard B. White
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 73. 
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Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace
by:
Thomas L. Pangle
4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings 
77. 
The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"
by:
Thomas L. Pangle
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
80. 
Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy
by:
Muhsin Mahdi
3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings 81. 
The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)
by:
Thomas L. Pangle
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 
84. 
Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle
by:
Timothy Burns
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 84. 
Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
86. 
Political Philosophy and the Human Soul: Essays in Memory of Allan Bloom
by:
Michael Palmer
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 
88. 
The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"
by:
Thomas L. Pangle
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
92. 
An Approach to Aristotle's Physics: With Particular Attention to the Role of His Manner of Writing
by:
David Bolotin
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 93. 
Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
94. 
Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli
by:
Kim A. Sorensen
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 94. 
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
97. 
Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate (Polit Theories Contem Iss
by:
Mary P. Nichols
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
99. 
Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing
by:
Ronna Burger
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings