Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s

The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy.

"The decade of the 1930s saw Leo Strauss make his fundamental breakthroughs in the meaning of classical political philosophy and the possibility of its recovery. This collection of essays by distinguished scholars, with newly translated works by Strauss, covers the whole complexity of Strauss's inquiry in this period, in its movement from the critical readings of the early moderns and the dialogue with Carl Schmitt, to the engagement with the medievals and Xenophon. This volume sheds invaluable new light on each of these investigations and on how they are interrelated, so that now one can much better understand how Strauss became Strauss." Richard Velkley, Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy, Tulane University, USA "An exhilarating collection that casts fresh and revealing light on the intellectually decisive decade in which 'Strauss became Strauss.' Indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in Strauss's thought." Susan Meld Shell, Professor of Political Science, Boston College

Gabriel Bartlett, Instructor of Philosophy, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, USANasser Behnegar, Associate Professor, Boston College, USAJeffrey A. Bernstein, Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross, USATimothy W. Burns, Professor, Baylor University, USASteven Frankel, Associate Professor, Xavier University, Cincinnati, USADavid Janssens, Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, The NetherlandsHannes Kerber, Research Assistant, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, GermanyHeinrich Meier, Director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich, also Professor, University of Munich, and permanent Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, USAThomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin, USAJoshua Parens, Professor and Graduate Director of Philosophy, University of Dallas, USA