Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Leo Strauss" by Leora Batnitzky

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Works by Strauss

PL	The Argument and Action of Plato’s Laws, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
CCM	“Correspondence Concerning Modernity,” trans. George Elliott Tucker, Independent Journal of Philosophy, 4 (1983): pp. 105–119 and 5/6 (1988): pp. 177–192.
FPP	Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934–1964, ed. and trans. Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
GS 3	Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 3, ed. Heinrich Meier, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2001.
JPCM	Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, ed. Kenneth Hart Green, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997.
NRH	Natural Right and History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.
OT	On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence, ed. Victor Gourevitch and Michael S. Roth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
PAW	Persecution and the Art of Writing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.
PL	Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and his Predecessors, trans. Eve Adler, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.
PPH	The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis, trans. Elsa M. Sinclair, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936.
SRPS	“Some Remarks on the Political Science of Maimonides and Farabi,” trans. Robert Bartlett Interpretation 18 (1990): pp. 3–30.
SCR	Spinoza’s Critique of Religion, trans. Elsa M. Sinclair, New York: Schocken, 1965.
TM	Thoughts on Machiavelli, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
WPP	What is Political Philosophy and Other Studies, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1959.

For a complete bibliography of Strauss’s writings see the Leo Strauss Center website.

Secondary Literature

Batnitzky, Leora, 2006, Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Bernstein, Jeffrey A., 2015, Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History, New York: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Drury, Shadia, 1988, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, New York: St. Martin’s Press. (Scholar)
Green, Kenneth Hart, 1993, Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, Leo Strauss and Maimonides: The Complete Writings, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Scholar)
Halbertal, Moshe, 2007, Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Political Implications, trans. Jackie Feldman, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Howse, Robert, 2012, “Misreading Leo Strauss”, Policy Review (Hoover Institution), December 2012 & January 2013, Howse 2012 available online. (Scholar)
–––, 2014, Leo Strauss: Man of Peace, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Janssens, David, 2008, Between Jerusalem and Athens: Philosophy, Prophecy, and Politics in Leo Strauss’s Early Thought, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Lampert, Laurence, 1996, Leo Strauss and Nietzsche, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2009, “Strauss’s Recovery of Esotericism,” Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss, ed. Steven B. Smith, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 63–92. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Meier, Heinrich, 1995, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogude, trans. Harvey J. Lomax, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2006, Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem, trans. Harvey J. Lomax, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Melzer, Arthur, 2014, Between the Lines: The Lost Art of Esoteric Writing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Orr, Susan, 1995, Jerusalem and Athens: Reason and Revelation in the Works of Leo Strauss, Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield. (Scholar)
Pangle, Thomas L., 2006, Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
Pines, Shlomo, 1979, “The Limitations of Human Knowledge According to al-Farabi, ibn Bajja and Maimonides,” Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, ed. I. Twersky, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 88–109. (Scholar)
Plantinga, Alvin and Wolterstorf, Nicholas, eds., 1991, Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, South Bend, IN.: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
Sheppard, Eugene R., 2006, Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile, Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press. (Scholar)
Smith, Steven B., 2006, Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Sorensen, Kim A., 2006, Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
Tanguay, Daniel, 2007, Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography, trans. Christopher Nadon, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
Vatter, Miguel E., 2011, “Natural Right and State of Exception in Leo Strauss” in Crediting God: Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Captialism, Miguel Vatter (ed.), New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 190–206. (Scholar)
Velkley, Richard, 2011, Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: An Original Forgetting, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Zuckert, Catherine and Michael, 2014, Leo Strauss and the Problems of Political Philosophy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2006, The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)

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