Strauss: 356 books
Toward "Natural Right and History"
Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937–1946
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss’s most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark work....
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1996
Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from Epicurus...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an...
David Levi Strauss
Für den Fall, dass in der Zukunft etwas anderes kommt Joseph Beuys und der 11. September (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 072)
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Anhand einer 3-D-Postkarte der Twin Towers von Joseph Beuys mit dem Titel Cosmos & Damian (1974) untersucht der Autor David Levi Strauss den Beuys'schen Prophetismus und die Maßnahmen seiner »Kunst der Heilung«. 27 Jahre bevor das World Trade Center zum Ziel einer internationalen fundamentalistischen...
Im Whirlpool mit Marilyn Manson, auf Drogen mit Madonna und im Bett mit ...
Die legendären Interviews
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Neil Strauss, renommierter Journalist und Koautor diverser Star-Autobiografien, gewährt in seinen Interviews einen intimen Einblick in das Seelenleben von Stars aus fast 40 Jahren Musik- und Filmgeschichte. Orlando Bloom spricht mit ihm über seine Selbstzweifel, Lady Gaga bringt er im Interview...
by Neil Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
If you want to play the Game, you've got to know the Rules.
In his international bestseller The Game, Neil Strauss delved into the secret world of pick-up artists—men who have created a science out of the art of seduction. Not only did he reveal the techniques that they had developed, but...
From Head to Hand
Art and the Manual
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this happen? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It...
Ten Caesars
Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)****—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives...
On Tyranny
Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s...
Andrew Strauss: Winning the Ashes Down Under
Coming out on Top
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
In November 2010, Andrew Strauss faced the ultimate challenge for an England cricket captain: winning the Ashes on Australian soil, a feat that had not been achieved for 24 years. By the end of a series that gripped the nation, he had led his team to an overwhelming victory - inflicting an unprecedented...
by David A. Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading...
The Hands-On Home
A Seasonal Guide to Cooking, Preserving & Natural Homekeeping
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Create the DIY home you've always wanted with over 100 recipes, tips, and inspirational ideas from blogger Erica Strauss (Northwest Edible Life). Covering everything from cooking, canning and preserving to making your own nontoxic home and personal care products, this fresh take on modern homemaking...
Richard Strauss
An Owner's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The life and music of Richard Strauss (1864-1949) span what was arguably the most turbulent period in human history, encompassing the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany, and two world wars. He was one of the very last composers to have started his career in service to the old European...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned...