Strauss: 356 books

Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche’s thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, taught in 1959 during Strauss’s tenure at the University of...

Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good...

Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controversy to defend the philosophical legacies of Spinoza and Leibniz against F. H. Jacobi’s philosophy...

In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes,...

Lévi-Strauss a Strasburgo, tra casse di libri, esperimenti con la Leica, film di E˙jzenštejn e pièce di Brecht. Lévi-Strauss a Mont-de-Marsan tra insegnamento e Partito socialista. Lévi-Strauss nell’appartamento di New York, a due passi da quello dell’amico Breton, mentre osserva sul campo...

This volume of papers from the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects his self-professed lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. As Irving Louis Horowitz notes in his foreword to the book, at the center of Strauss's effort has been the democratization...

Quando, agli inizi degli anni settanta, Botho Strauss si trova a fare i conti con la morte del padre, la prima reazione è: silenzio. Nel tempo scrive Origine, rispondendo a un’urgenza che, trasposta sulla pagina, ha la forma di un fluire di parole che mal sopporta di irreggimentarsi in una struttura...

Professor Lévi-Strauss’s first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a...

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text. "Strauss's The Argument and the Action...

L’interprétation straussienne de Machiavel n’a-t-elle pas valeur de provocation ? En rendant justice au sens commun qui voit en Machiavel un prophète du Mal, « l’angélisme » de Leo Strauss — auquel d’aucuns se laissent prendre — ne s’avère-t-il pas être une manœuvre diabolique...

Professions, Work and Careers addresses some of the central themes that preoccupied the eminent sociologist Anselm Strauss. This collection is directed at sociologists concerned with the development of theory and graduate and undergraduate students in the sociology of work and the sociology of medicine....

On May 21, 2004, playing against New Zealand, Andrew Strauss wrote his name into the record books when he became only the fourth batsman to score a century at Lord's on his Test debut. He made 112 in the first innings and was only denied a historical second hundred when he was run out on 83 by Nasser...

TESTING TIMES is the 2009 Ashes-winning captain's personal account of a remarkable two-year period in world cricket. When Strauss went out for his second innings in the Napier Test of March 2008, everyone thought -- including the man himself -- he was one false stroke from the end of his England career....

Questa edizione contiene la tragedia di Sofocle “Elettra", tradotta in lingua italiana da ettore Romagnoli, e il libretto dell’opera di Richard Strauss, “Elektra”, nella versione originale tedesca di Hofmannsthal, con traduzione a fronte in italiano di Carmen Margherita Di Giglio. DALLA...