An evolving interpretative context has pitted interpretations of Strauss as a furtive Nietzschean nihilist on the one hand against an understanding that he was primarily a Jewish thinker on the other. I will argue that he was neither. Strauss was attempting to recover what he categorized as the original idea of philosophy as theoretical and … Continue reading On a Possible Epicurrean Garden for Philosophy: Philosophy and the City in the Thought of Leo Strauss