Leo Strauss
<p ><b>Leo Strauss</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >s</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >t</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >r</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >aʊ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >s</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#cite_note-1" >[1]</a></sup> <small>German:</small> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_German" title="Help:IPA for German" >[ʃtraʊs]</a>; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German–American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy" >political philosopher</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicist" title="Classicist" class="mw-redirect" >classicist</a> who specialized in classical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy" >political philosophy</a>. He was born in Germany to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" title="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" >Jewish</a> parents and later emigrated to the United States. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago" >University of Chicago</a>, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup>
Originally trained in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Kantian" title="Neo-Kantian" class="mw-redirect" >neo-Kantian</a> tradition with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Cassirer" title="Ernst Cassirer" >Ernst Cassirer</a> and immersed in the work of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)" >phenomenologists</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl" title="Edmund Husserl" >Edmund Husserl</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger" >Martin Heidegger</a>, Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" title="Plato" >Plato</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle" >Aristotle</a>, retracing their interpretation through medieval <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic" title="Islamic" class="mw-redirect" >Islamic</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" title="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" >Jewish</a> philosophy and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#cite_note-3" >[3]</a></sup></p>