Article: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: German Emigres and American Political Thought after World War II.

If I may generalize about diverse essays, this work addresses primarily the thought of Strauss (successfully) and Arendt (modestly) and contains little on American political thought. It chooses to focus on only two figures, leaving out others such as Morganthau, Voegelin, or Marcuse. The book consists of an introduction, three essays on Arendt, five essays on Strauss, and a concluding "discussion" among the participants at the 1991 conference, which addresses the three central issues: (1) the German intellectual background of Arendt and Strauss, (2) their intellectual evolution resulting from experiences in the United States, and (3) traces of their American experiences on ...

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