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| Title: | Strauss, Leo. Papers |
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| Dates: | circa 1930-1997 |
| Size: | 105 boxes (99.5 linear feet) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Leo Strauss (1899-1973), scholar of political philosophy. The Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, notebooks, publications and audio recordings. The papers document Strauss' career as a writer and professor of political philosophy at the Academy of Jewish Research, Berlin (1925-1932), the New School for Social Research (1941-1948), the University of Chicago (1949-1968) and other institutions in the United States and Europe. |
Series VII, Audio Recordings, does not include access copies for all material. Researchers will need to consult with staff before requesting material from this series. Series VIII, Subseries 1 contains student evaluative material which is restricted for 80 years from the date of creation. Series VIII, Subseries 2 includes specific reproduction and citation requirements. The remainder of the collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Leo Strauss. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Leo Strauss was born on September 20, 1899, in Kirchhain, Hesse, Germany, to Hugo Strauss and Jennie David, owners of a small agricultural business. He graduated from the Gymnasium Philippinum in 1917, then served in the German army through the end of World War I.
Following the war, Strauss studied philosophy in Marburg, Frankfurt, Berlin and Hamburg, receiving a PhD in 1921 from Hamburg University for his dissertation "Das Erkenntnisproblem in der philosophischen Lehre Jacobis." He continued his studies, with a focus on history, in Freiburg, Giessen and Marburg. Publication of the essay "Cohens Analyse der Bibelwissenschaft Spinozas" in 1924 led to his 1925 appointment to Berlin's Academy of Jewish Research, where his research on Jewish philosophy formed the basis of his first major work, Die Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft (1930). Strauss also translated Moses Mendelssohn's work from the Hebrew for the Academy's Mendelssohn Edition. In Berlin, Strauss met several scholars with whom he began long and substantive correspondence. Among them were Alexandre Kojeve, Karl Löwith, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacob Klein and Gershom Scholem.
In 1932, Strauss was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in the social sciences, with the aid of which he studied medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy in Paris and Thomas Hobbes in England. Unable to return to pre-war Germany, he continued his work on Hobbes at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, publishing The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Genesis in 1936. In 1937, he emigrated to the United States, first taking an appointment as Research Fellow in the Department of History at Columbia University, then a professorship at the New School for Social Research, where he remained until 1948. Strauss served as associate editor of Social Research from 1941 to 1948.
Strauss became Professor of political philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1949. He remained at Chicago until 1968, and was named Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor in 1960. Natural Rights and History (1953) was based on lectures delivered at the University in 1949. An effort by Strauss and other faculty to establish a chair in Jewish Studies was unsuccessful.
Strauss served as visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1953. In the early 1950s, he corresponded with Martin Buber about a chair in sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He taught in Jerusalem as a visiting professor in 1954 and 1955, but chose to remain at the University of Chicago. Lectures delivered in Jerusalem were the basis for the title essay of Strauss' What is Political Philosophy? (1959).
In 1965, following the translation of many of his works into German, Strauss was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economy and Social Science by the University of Hamburg. From 1965 until his death, he was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar in residence at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. During his later years, he worked mainly on interpretation of ancient Greek philosophers. His last major work, The Argument and Action of Plato's "Laws" was published posthumously in 1975.
Strauss married Marie (Mirjam) Bernson on June 20, 1933. The couple raised two children, Thomas (Petri), Bernson's son from her first marriage, and Jenny Ann Kraus, the orphaned daughter of Strauss' sister, adopted by the Strauss' in 1946. Other members of Strauss' immediate family died in a German concentration camp in 1942. Strauss became an American citizen in 1938. He died in Annapolis, Maryland on October 18, 1973.
Leo Strauss is known mainly for five books, each of which has been widely translated and regularly reprinted: Die Religionskritik Spinozas (1930), The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1936), On Tyranny (1948), Natural Right and History (1953) and Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958). While much of Strauss' writing is known mainly to scholars, On Tyranny and Natural Right and History deal with more general issues of political philosophy in a public context. On Tyranny wrestles with the ethical problems of dictatorship, as reflected in Xenophon's Hiero. Natural Right and History, closely related to Strauss' study of Hobbes in the 1930s, deals broadly with the philosophical and historical problems of the liberal state, brought to the forefront of Western consciousness by political events of the 1930s and World War II.
Strauss' five major works demonstrate the intertwining themes on which Strauss focused throughout his career. In a letter to Dr. Cyrus Adler (November 30, 1933) he described the genesis of his related interests:
My studies of Spinoza's Theological and Political Treatise have shown me a connection between the theological and political problem. These studies have led me to Spinoza's Jewish medieval predecessors, especially Maimonides, on the one hand, and Hobbes' political science on the other hand. During the pursuit of these sources, I formed the plan to make 1. the political science of Hobbes and 2. the theory of prophecy in Jewish and Islamic philosophy of the Middle Ages the subject of my future studies…. After finishing my book on Spinoza, I was charged by the Akademie to analyze Gersonides' Milchamot Hashem. I started with an analysis of Gersonides' Teaching on Prophecy. The research on his sources led me from Maimonides to Islamic philosophers, of whom I studied several in Arabic manuscripts – and made me realize that the connection between medieval Jewish and Islamic teaching on prophecy and Plato's Statesman and Laws had not yet been thoroughly evaluated.
Though Strauss maintained a deep interest in Jewish religious thought and philosophy, his study of Jewish thinkers culminates with his writings on Spinoza in the 1930s. He was particularly sensitive to the legacy of medieval Jewish thought, which he saw as essential to understanding developments in later European thought. He concerned himself also with contemporary perceptions of Spinoza and with the image of the Jew in German literature of the Enlightenment.
Strauss believed that the roots of Western Civilization could be found in Jewish and Greek philosophy. His early classical humanistic education included extensive study of Latin and ancient Greek, and his later studies of philosophy broadened his knowledge of classical languages and deepened his appreciation of the humanistic method of tracing concepts and beliefs to their roots in primary material. After 1960, Strauss turned increasingly toward the study of Greek philosophy.
The Leo Strauss Papers have been divided into eight series: Series I, Correspondence; Series II, Teaching; Series III, Manuscripts; Series IV, Publications and Reviews; Series V, Personal Files ; Series VI, Oversize; Series VII, Audio Recordings and Series VIII, Restricted Files. The collection spans the years 1930 to 1997, with the bulk dating from the 1930s through the 1960s. Photocopies of some of Strauss' writings from the 1920s are also included.
Series I contains approximately 1000 letters. Strauss' correspondents include friends, students, publishers, academic officials and colleagues. Letters are written German, English and French.
Correspondence from Strauss' colleagues generally concerns ongoing scholarship. Letters often focus on particular themes or problems, as in Erich Voegelin's discussion of "das Verhaltnis von Wissenschaft und Offerbarung." (April 22, 1951) Other colleagues give detailed analyses of Strauss' writings. See, for example, letters from Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Strauss formed many long-lasting intellectual and personal ties to fellow scholars. Many of these relationships are reflected in correspondences that span several decades and show the ups and downs of long friendships. The noted scholar and educator Jacob Klein, for example, analyzed Strauss' personality in a letter of December 1, 1932, while Strauss characterized Klein in his "Unspoken Prologue." A spirited and amusing friendship is reflected in letters from Peter von Blanckenhagen, which contain poems and scholarly humor. Another sort of relationship may be found in Strauss' correspondence with Julius Guttman, Strauss' superior at the Academy of Jewish Research in Berlin. Strauss held Guttman in high esteem, but his work failed to win Guttman's full approval.
Correspondence from the 1930s and 1940s contains surprisingly little comment regarding political affairs in Germany. An exception is Jacob Klein's lengthy description of the local situation in a letter from June 20, 1934. After the war, Strauss corresponded regularly with German academics and with German publishers interested in his writings. A letter from the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (December 16, 1948) expresses grief and shame over the crimes of the Third Reich.
Series II, Teaching, includes manuscripts of Strauss' lectures and essays and numerous groups of reading notes on subjects on which he wrote and taught. Although many of Strauss' publications were based on his lectures, the collection does not seem to include texts directly related to his most well-known books and articles.
Strauss' notes are largely organized by subject. They have been organized into four groups, reflecting major themes in Strauss' thought and work. The first group comprises notes on Hobbes and Natural Right. Strauss did most of his research on Hobbes in England in the early 1930s. His work led to the publication of The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis (1936), the German manuscript of which is in Series IV. Notes found in Series II are likely to have been used for this book as well as for occasional lectures and articles. Also included are notes related to Strauss' interest in editing Hobbes' unpublished letters.
The second group of notes concerns Jewish thought. Among the major thinkers appearing in Strauss notes are:
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (Roschd), 1126-1198, a Mohammedan of noble birth. His commentary on Aristotle was one of the most widely read texts of the Middle Ages. He is often known as "the Commentator."
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides) (FMbM), 1134-1204, author of the Mishneh Torah (1180) and the Guide of the Perplexed (1190). His work profoundly influenced Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus.
Rabbi Lewy ben Gerson (Gerschom) (Gersonides) (RLbG), 1288-1344, defended Averroes' Commentaries against later critics. His most important work is Milchamot Hashem, translated into German in the sixteenth century as Die Kampfe Gottes.
Hermann Cohen, 1842-1918, founded the Marburg school of Neo-Kantianism and taught at the Academy for Jewish Research.
A third group of notes comments extensively on books read by Strauss in the original Greek. Strauss was extremely well-versed in classical languages, and others often sought his advice on the subject. Many of the major research themes of the field are discussed in his correspondence, particularly with Karl Löwith, Jacob Klein, Joseph Cropsey and Seth Benardete, and reflected in his notes. A final group of notes covers a range of subjects outside the major categories discussed above.
Series III, Manuscripts, and Series IV, Publications and Reviews include manuscript, typescript and published texts of many of Strauss' writings. A small amount of correspondence with colleagues and publishers is included with the texts. Series IV contains proof sheets for several of Strauss' books. Also included in Series IV are a small number of writings by other scholars, collected by Strauss, and also review articles and newspaper clippings concerning his work.
Series V, Personal, contains a small number of biographical documents and several honors and awards received by Strauss. It also includes a brief diary kept by Strauss in 1944.
Series VII, Audio-Visual, contains audio recordings of Strauss lectures, primarily from the 1960s. The recordings are arranged chronologically. Subseries 1 contains original and new master copies. These are not available for listening. Subseries 2 contains access copies of many of the recordings, on audio cassette. These are available for listening onsite. Items from Subseries 1, for which access copies are not available in Subseries 2, may be eligible for reproduction. Please see Special Collections Research Center staff for further information.
Series VIII, Restricted, contains letters of recommendation written by Strauss, and correspondence with Gershom Scholem, to which access is restricted.
Digitized recordings and transcripts of many lectures are available from the Leo Strauss Center.
Series I: Correspondence |
Series I contains approximately 1000 letters, organized into three alphabetical subseries. Letters are written in German, English and French.
Subseries 1, Correspondence to Leo Strauss, contains letters received by Strauss from the 1930s through the 1960s. It includes a file of correspondence related to the Rockefeller Foundation grants awarded to Strauss in the 1932 and 1934.
Subseries 2, Correspondence from Leo Strauss, contains carbon copies of Strauss' outgoing letters from the 1950s and 1960s. Also included are a few handwritten letters, some from earlier dates.
Subseries 3, General Correspondence, includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence between Strauss and friends, students, publishers and colleagues. The subseries also contains biographical information on Strauss and a small number of his colleagues. Also included are several letters between individuals other than Strauss, which were acquired by Strauss or other custodians of his papers.
Subseries 1: Correspondence to Leo Strauss |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Illegible signatures |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | A (Ab-As) including Asch |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | B (Ba-Bu) including Bloom, Buber, Bultmann |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Barker, Ernest |
| Box 1 Folder 4A | Beadle, George, 1963-1967 |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Benardete, Seth |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Berns, Walter |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Blankenhagen, Peter H. von |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | C (Ca-Co) including Cassirer |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Cropsey |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | D (Da-Di) |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | E (Ea-En) |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Edelstein, Ludwig |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | F (Fa-Fu) |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | G (Ga-Gu) including Gadamer, Guttmann |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | H (Ha-He) including v. Hentig |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | H (Ho-Hy) |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | J (Ja-Jo) including Jaffa, Jonas |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | K (Ka-Ku) including Kuhn |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Kendall, Willmore (includes mss. The Social Contract) |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Klein, Jacob (includes mss. "An Unspoken Prologue to Public Lecture at St. Johns," in tribute to Klein) |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Kojève, Alexandre |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Koyre, Alexandre |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | Krueger, G. |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | L (La-Lu) |
| Box 2 Folder 10A | Lerner, Ralph, 1952-1972 |
| Box 2 Folder 11 | Löwith, Karl |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | M (Mc-Mo) including Momigliano |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Mayer, Carl |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | Mayer, Clara |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | N (Na-Ny) including Nef) |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | O (Od-Os) |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | P (Pa-Pu) |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | R (Ra-Ru) |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Rockefeller Grants, 1932-1934, containing biographical data |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | S (Sa-Si) including See, Shils |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | S (So-Su) |
| Box 3 Folder 11 | Scholem, Gershom |
| Box 3 Folder 12 | Speier, Hans |
| Box 3 Folder 13 | T (Ta-Ty) including Toennis |
| Box 3 Folder 14 | Tawney, R.H. |
| Box 3 Folder 15 | Thompson, Francis |
| Box 3 Folder 16 | U, V (Ul-Vo) including Voegelin |
| Box 3 Folder 17 | W (Wa-We) |
| Box 3 Folder 18 | W-Z (Wh-Zo) |
| Box 3 Folder 19 | Weinstein, Leo |
| Box 3 Folder 20 | White, Howard |
Subseries 2: Correspondence from Leo Strauss |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | A including Asch |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | B including Berns |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | Benardete, Seth, See also Folders 18-25 |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Bloom, Allan |
| Box 4 Folder 5 | C including Cropsey |
| Box 4 Folder 6 | D |
| Box 4 Folder 7 | E-F including Edelstein |
| Box 4 Folder 8 | G including Gadamer, Guttmann |
| Box 4 Folder 9 | H |
| Box 4 Folder 10 | J including Jaffa, Jonas |
| Box 4 Folder 11 | K including Kojeve, Kuhn (photocopies) |
| Box 4 Folder 12 | L including Löwith |
| Box 4 Folder 13 | M-N including Momigliano |
| Box 4 Folder 14 | O |
| Box 4 Folder 15 | P |
| Box 4 Folder 16 | R |
| Box 4 Folder 17 | S-W including Scholem |
| Box 4 Folder 18 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, 1952-1954 |
| Box 4 Folder 19 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, 1955-1957 |
| Box 4 Folder 20 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, 1958-1960 |
| Box 4 Folder 21 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, 1961-1963 |
| Box 4 Folder 22 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, 1964-1966 |
| Box 4 Folder 23 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, 1967-1969 |
| Box 4 Folder 24 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, 1970-1973 |
| Box 4 Folder 25 | Leo Strauss to Seth Benardete, n.d.; and unidentified letters |
Subseries 3: General Correspondence |
| Box 4 Folder 26 | Correspondence
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| Box 5 Folder 1 | Correspondence with Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellshaft (Frau Brigitte Scheer und Josepha Munning), to Strauss
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| Box 5 Folder 1 | Correspondence with Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellshaft (Frau Brigitte Scheer und Josepha Munning), from Strauss
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| Box 5 Folder 2 | Correspondence Strauss to Gerhard Kruger
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| Box 5 Folder 3 | Correspondence, Leo Baeck Institute (Strauss to Salomon), 7 January 1945 |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | Loose notes from Strauss's copy of Vogelin's New Science of Politics 24 November 1947 |
| Box 5 Folder 5 | Correspondence, Strauss to Walter Belrns
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| Box 5 Folder 6 | Gadamer on Strauss: An Interview |
| Box 5 Folder 7 | Correspondence, Strauss, Wilmoore Kendall, 19 November 1956 (2 copies; 1 with list of receivers) |
| Box 5 Folder 8 | Newspaper clippings, The Cornell Daily Sun
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| Box 5 Folder 9 | Correspondence, H. Kuhn to W. Berns, 17 October 1961 |
| Box 5 Folder 10 | Correspondence, Robert Goldwin, to Strauss
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| Box 5 Folder 10 | Correspondence, Robert Goldwin, from Strauss
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| Box 5 Folder 11 | Correspondence, Strauss to Percy
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| Box 5 Folder 12 | Correspondence, Strauss to Schmitt
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| Box 5 Folder 13 | Correspondence, Strauss to Morton Frisch
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| Box 5 Folder 14 | Correspondence, Strauss to F. Tonnies
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| Box 5 Folder 15 | Correspondence, Strauss to W. Welliver
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| Box 5 Folder 16 | Correspondence, Strauss to C. Bruell
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| Box 5 Folder 17 | Translation of a Strauss letter to H. Kuhn |
| Box 5 Folder 18 | Correspondence, Strauss to H. Magid
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| Box 5 Folder 19 | Correspondence, Strauss to Faulkner
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| Box 5 Folder 20 | Correspondence, Strauss letter "To Whom It May Concern" regarding Rev. Duncan B. Forrester, 8 December 1969 |
| Box 5 Folder 21 | Correspondence
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| Box 5 Folder 22 | Correspondence, 1957-1997 |
| Box 5 Folder 23 | Correspondence, photocopies of letters between Strauss and Eric Vogelin |
| Box 5 Folder 24 | Correspondence, Hoffmann, Verlag, Oehler, 1962-1965 |
| Box 5 Folder 25 | Correspondence and general transcription receipts, 1974-1976 |
Series II: Teaching |
Series II contains material related to Strauss' teaching and research and is divided into three subseries: 1, Lectures; 2, Essays; 3, Notes.
Subseries 1 and 2 contain texts of many of Strauss' lectures and essays. Many of these are hand-written in bound notebooks and some are given only in brief outline. Because the texts are not always clearly dated or labeled, the distinction between lectures and essays is sometimes unclear.
Subseries 3 consists of research and writing notes. Strauss organized his research material by subject. Many are on small scraps of paper, and most are handwritten. They are organized into three Sub-subseries: 1, Hobbes, Natural Right; 2, Jewish Thought; 3, Greek Thought and 4, Miscellaneous.
Subseries 1: Lectures |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | Die religiöse Gegenwart 1930 |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | Cohen und Maimuni 1931. Containing a translation from the Hebrew of Milchamot Hashem for Guttman |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | Die geistige Lage der Gegenwart 1932 |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | Greek and Roman Political Thought I 1938 |
| Box 6 Folder 5 | Greek and Roman Political Thought II |
| Box 6 Folder 6 | On the Study of Classical Political Philosophy 1938 |
| Box 6 Folder 7 | Hesiod and the Presocratics 1939? |
| Box 6 Folder 8 | Political Philosophy in the Age of Reason 1941: Kant, Hume, Descartes, Hobbes |
| Box 6 Folder 9 | Philosophy and Sociology of Knowledge 1941 |
| Box 6 Folder 10 | German Nihilism 1941 |
| Box 6 Folder 11 | The Origins of Economic Sciences: Xenophon's Oeconomicus 1941-1942 |
| Box 6 Folder 12 | What can we learn from Political Theory? 1942 |
| Box 6 Folder 13 | On Plato's "Laws" 1973? |
| Box 6 Folder 14 | History of Ideas 1942 and History of Political Ideas 1949 |
| Box 6 Folder 15 | Natural Right, containing notes on Thomas Aquinas 1946 |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | Natural Right 1951 and 1954 |
| Box 7 Folder 2 | Progress or Return 1953 |
| Box 7 Folder 3 | Basic Problems of Political Philosophy 1953 |
| Box 7 Folder 4 | Basic Problems 1955 and Historicism 1955 |
| Box 7 Folder 5 | The Origins of Political Sciences and the Problem of Socrates 1958, first 10 pages missing |
| Box 7 Folder 6 | Existenzialism 1960?; Existenz 1960? |
| Box 7 Folder 7 | On Higher Education in the Crisis of Our Time 1961 |
| Box 7 Folder 8 | Gorgias; Protagoras 1963; 1965 |
| Box 7 Folder 9 | Analecta Maimonidea: Treatise on the Art of Logic |
| Box 8 Folder 1 | The Problem of Socrates n.d. |
| Box 8 Folder 2 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lecture 11 |
| Box 8 Folder 3 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lecture 12 |
| Box 8 Folder 4 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lecture 13 |
| Box 8 Folder 5 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lecture 14 and 15 |
| Box 8 Folder 6 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lecture 16 |
| Box 8 Folder 7 | Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War, lectures 1 and 3 |
| Box 8 Folder 8 | Plato's Laws, lectures 23-26 |
| Box 8 Folder 9-13 | Aristotle's Politics, lectures 1-17, Spring 1960 |
| Box 9 Folder 1-4 | Hegel, lectures 1-12, Fall 1958 |
| Box 9 Folder 5-7 | Sources on Socrates: Plato's Apology and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds, Birds, and Wasps, Seminars 1-14, n.d. (2 copies) |
| Box 9 Folder 8-9 | Sources on Socrates: Plato's Apology and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds, Birds, and Wasps, Seminars 1-14, n.d. (2 copies) |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | Sources on Socrates: Plato's Apology and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds, Birds, and Wasps, Seminars 1-14, n.d. (2 copies) |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | Xenophon's Memorabilia, 4.3-4.4.1-8 and 3.4.12-3.6 |
| Box 10 Folder 3-4 | Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, lectures 1-9, December 6, 1972-April 4, 1973 |
| Box 10 Folder 5-8 | Plato's Laws, lectures 1-15, Winter 1959 |
| Box 11 Folder 1-5 | Political Philosophy of Spinoza, lectures 1-16 , Fall 1959 |
| Box 11 Folder 6-9 | Political Philosophy of Cicero, lectures, Spring 1959 |
| Box 11 Folder 10-11 | Historicism and Modern Relativism, Winter 1956 |
| Box 12 Folder 1-4 | Basic Principles of Classical Political Philosophy, Fall 1961 |
| Box 12 Folder 5-8 | Political Philosophy of John Locke, Winter 1958 |
| Box 12 Folder 9-10 | Plato's Symposium, n.d. |
| Box 13 Folder 1-2 | Plato's Symposium, n.d. |
| Box 13 Folder 3-6 | Nietzsche, Winter 1967 |
| Box 13 Folder 7-10 | Montesquieu, Winter 1966 |
| Box 14 Folder 1-4 | Montesquieu, Spring 1966 |
Subseries 2: Essays |
| Box 14 Folder 5 | Der Konspektivismus: über Mannheims Ideologie 1929 |
| Box 14 Folder 6 | Einige Anmerkungen über die politische Wissenschaft des Hobbes 1932 |
| Box 14 Folder 7 | The Living Issues of German Post-War Philosophy 1941? |
| Box 14 Folder 8 | On Machiavelli 1972 and Note on the Plan for Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" 1973 and Xenophon "Anabasis" 1973 |
| Box 14 Folder 9 | Note on Kurt Riezler's "Some critical remarks on man's Science of Man" n.d. |
| Box 14 Folder 10 | The Frame of Reference in the Social Sciences n.d. |
| Box 14 Folder 11 | The Origin of Modern Political Thought n.d. |
| Box 14 Folder 12 | Exoteric Teaching [cf. notes: miscellaneous] |
Subseries 3: Course Notes |
Sub-subseries 1: Hobbes; Natural Right |
| Box 14 Folder 13 | Bacon, Montaigne, Hobbes, and British Writers of the 17th and 18th century 1931 |
| Box 14 Folder 14 | Augustine, Thomas, Calvin; Hobbes' Behemoth: edition Toennies; Drafts of letters to Kruger (Krieger?); Outline: Die politische Wissenschaft des Hobbes, eine Einführung in das Naturrecht 1931-1934 |
| Box 14 Folder 15 | Planned Book on Hobbes a) Notes on Hobbes' works 1931 |
| Box 15 Folder 1 | Planned Book on Hobbes b) Vorwort zu einem Buch über Hobbes; Notes on: Naturrecht 1931 |
| Box 15 Folder 2 | Planned Book on Hobbes c) Einleitung, Kapitel I and II 97 pages 1930-1931 |
| Box 15 Folder 3 | Hobbes; Arbeitsplan: Spinoza and Hobbes 1934 |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | Vorurteil und defensive Kritik; Descartes; Plan of the Molesworth Edition of Hobbes; Outline: Die Grundlage von Hobbes Metaphysik und seine Religionkritik 1934? |
| Box 15 Folder 5 | Die Religionskritik des Hobbes, ein Beitrag zur Aufklarung n.d. |
| Box 15 Folder 6 | Photocopies and photographs of Hobbes' Manuscripts in the British Museum and in Chatsworth |
| Box 15 Folder 7 | "Essayes" attributed to Hobbes, Manuscript copy by Leo Strauss |
| Box 15 Folder 8 | Hobbes' "Essays" proposed edition. Carbon copies of letters concerning this plan |
| Box 15 Folder 9 | Hobbes' vitae and correspondence; publication proposal 1934 |
| Box 15 Folder 10 | Cumberland, Hobbes 1951?; 1931? |
| Box 15 Folder 11 | Hobbes n.d. |
| Box 15 Folder 12 | Naturrecht; outline for "Naturrecht" 1933 |
| Box 15 Folder 13 | Notes Jus et Lex 1943 |
| Box 15 Folder 14 | Natural Right 1945-1947? |
| Box 15 Folder 15 | Declaration of Human Rights 1947 |
| Box 15 Folder 16 | Natural Right 1950 |
Sub-subseries 2: Jewish Thought |
| Box 15 Folder 17 | Maimonides: Mishneh Torah 1926; Notes on Maimonides' "Letter on Astrology" |
| Box 15 Folder 18 | Averroës' Commentary on Aristoteles 1926[?] |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | Ibn Rushd (Averroës); Outline: RLbG Lehre von der Vorsehung und ihre Voraussetzung 1930? |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | RLbG Milchamot; Reading notes on Averroës Commentary 1930-1938 |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | Das Gesetz im jüdisch-islamischen Mittelalter; Outline: Die Lehre des RLbG 1930 |
| Box 16 Folder 4 | RMbM Die Philosophie des Gesetzes 1935-1936 |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | Lessings Nathan der Weise and the 18th century 1936 |
| Box 16 Folder 6 | RMbM; Outline for The Secret Teaching of the Guide of the Perplexed 1938 and Juda Halewi; The Philosopher in the Cuzari 1941 |
| Box 16 Folder 7 | The Problem of Revelation; unidentified |
| Box 16 Folder 8 | Notes 1946 |
| Box 16 Folder 9 | Philosophy and the Law, Outline 1946 |
| Box 16 Folder 10 | Spinoza 1947 |
| Box 16 Folder 11 | Spinoza; Revelation and Reason; Draft of a letter to Voegelin 1947-1951 |
| Box 16 Folder 12 | Notebooks on Maimonides, 1954-1961; A-B |
| Box 16 Folder 13 | Notebooks on Maimonides, 1954-1961; C-D (Xeroxes) |
| Box 16 Folder 14 | Natural Right; RMbM and Plato's "Laws" n.d. |
| Box 16 Folder 15 | Is divine law possible at all, n.d. |
| Box 16 Folder 16 | Reading notes: Mishneh Torah, BMbM? n.d. |
| Box 16 Folder 17 | Spinoza n.d. |
Sub-subseries 3: Notes: Greek Thought |
| Box 17 Folder 1 | Platos Lehre vom Gesetz 1935 |
| Box 17 Folder 2 | Plato "Republic" 38pp.; Exoteric Teaching, 8pp. 1935? |
| Box 17 Folder 3 | Plato, Outline: Classical Politics 1944 |
| Box 17 Folder 4 | Classical Politics 1944? |
| Box 17 Folder 5 | Thucydides, History 1952 |
| Box 17 Folder 6 | Symposium 1959 |
| Box 17 Folder 7 | Aristophanes, A 1960-1962 |
| Box 17 Folder 8 | Aristophanes, B |
| Box 17 Folder 9 | Aristophanes, C |
| Box 17 Folder 10 | Thucydides, paper on Thucydides by Christopher Bruel 1961-1972 |
| Box 17 Folder 11 | Plato's Meno; Commentary by J. Klein 1969 |
| Box 17 Folder 12-13 | Xenophon n.d. |
| Box 17 Folder 14 | Physis; Plutarch: die drei Theologiem n.d. |
| Box 17 Folder 15 | City and Man n.d. |
| Box 17 Folder 16 | Plato "Republic" n.d. |
Sub-subseries 4: Miscellaneous Notes |
| Box 18 Folder 1 | Democracy 1945 |
| Box 18 Folder 2 | Husserl; Heidegger 1946 |
| Box 18 Folder 3 | Basic Problems 1950 [cf. lecture] |
| Box 18 Folder 4 | Machiavelli: Discorsi, Principe; Arte della Guerra 1954-1955 |
| Box 18 Folder 5 | Machiavelli's success n.d. |
| Box 18 Folder 6 | Moral Philosophy: Kant, Scheler n.d. |
| Box 18 Folder 7 | Politics and Literature: Lessing, Addison; Volaire; Shakespeare n.d. |
| Box 18 Folder 8 | Political Theory and Political Sciences, 28pp. n.d. |
| Box 18 Folder 9 | Why is Philosophy Absolutely Necessary n.d. |
| Box 18 Folder 10 | Notes: Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics; contains correspondence |
| Box 18 Folder 11 | Unidentified notes 1951 |
| Box 18 Folder 12 | Unidentified notes 1955 |
| Box 18 Folder 13 | Unidentified notes 1964 |
| Box 18 Folder 14 | Program for a political science course, Fall semester 1958-1959 |
| Box 18 Folder 15 | Notebook and notes: commentaries on Plato's Euthyphro and Crito |
| Box 18 Folder 16 | Notes and commentaries on Plato's Statesman |
| Box 18 Folder 17 | Miscellaneous notes
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| Box 19 Folder 1 | Readings in Philosophy, Spring 1941 |
| Box 19 Folder 2 | Thoughts on Machiavelli, manuscript, pp. 57-113 |
| Box 19 Folder 3 | Thoughts on Machiaveli, manuscript, pp. 114-152, 1957; Review of Leyden's edition of Locke's On Natural Law, pp. 1-12, 1957-1958 |
| Box 19 Folder 4 | Socrates and Aristophanes, pp. 1-48, 1963-1964 |
| Box 19 Folder 5 | Socrates and Aristophanes, pp. 49-97 |
| Box 19 Folder 6 | Socrates and Aristophanes, pp. 98-147 |
| Box 19 Folder 7 | Socrates and Aristophanes, pp. 148-159 |
| Box 19 Folder 8 | Miscellaneous notes
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| Box 19 Folder 9 | The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws", pp. 111-219, 1970-1971 |
| Box 19 Folder 10 | The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws", typescript, second copy, pp. 1-119 |
| Box 20 Folder 1 | The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws", typescript, second copy, pp. 120-275 |
| Box 20 Folder 2 | "1001 Nights," typescript, 18 pp. |
| Box 20 Folder 3 | Grobius, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 4 | Hobbes, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 5 | Kant, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 6 | Montesquieu, 1950s and Winter and Spring, 1966 |
| Box 20 Folder 7 | Nietzsche, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 8 | Nietzsche, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 9 | Nietzsche, Winter 1967 |
| Box 20 Folder 10 | Pascal, n.d.; Philosophy and Revelation, New School of Social Research, New York, notes and required reading list, ca. 1947 |
| Box 20 Folder 11 | Rousseau, Emile, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 12 | Vico, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 13 | Xenophon, n.d. |
| Box 20 Folder 14 | Arabic (notebook); Biblical Book of Kings; and "The New Theology and the Secularization of the City" (notebook) |
| Box 20 Folder 15 | "Arbeitsplan" and fragments |
| Box 20 Folder 16 | Strauss Lecture on Machiavelli delivered at St. John's College, 12 March 1971 |
Series III: Manuscripts |
Series III, Manuscripts, includes manuscript and typescript texts of many of Strauss' writings. A small amount of correspondence with colleagues and publishers is included with the texts.
| Box 21 Folder 1 | "The Problem of Socrates", typescript and photocopy of handwritten |
| Box 21 Folder 2 | "Existentialism", typescript |
| Box 21 Folder 3 | A German translation of "How to Study Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise" (W.B., N. Altwicker, Darmstadt, 1971) |
| Box 21 Folder 4 | A German translation of pp. 41-59, 66 of Natural Right and History (W.B., N. Altwicker et. E. Topitsch, Darmstadt, n.d.) |
| Box 21 Folder 5-6 | Strauss, Leo, The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws, manuscript, photocopy, ca. 1973 |
| Box 22 Folder 1 | "How Farabi Read Plato's Laws" (notebook); Final paragraph of "Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero," in On Tyranny, omitted from English version |
| Box 22 Folder 2 | Thoughts on Machiavelli, 1956 (2 spiral bound notebooks) |
| Box 22 Folder 3 | Socrates and Aristophanes |
| Box 22 Folder 4 | Socrates and Aristophanes |
| Box 22 Folder 5 | Socrates and Aristophanes |
| Box 22 Folder 6 | Socrates and Aristophanes; includes 2 letters to Basic Books, Inc. |
| Box 22 Folder 7 | The City and Man |
| Box 22 Folder 8 | The City and Man |
| Box 22 Folder 9 | Review of Greek Historical Writing by W. P. Henry |
| Box 22 Folder 10 | How to Study Medieval Philosophy |
| Box 22 Folder 11 | Jerusalem and Athens |
| Box 23 Folder 1 | Memorabilia (partial, with notes) |
| Box 23 Folder 2 | Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" |
| Box 23 Folder 3 | Notes on Lucretius |
| Box 23 Folder 4 | Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy |
| Box 23 Folder 5 | Preliminary Observations on the Gods in Thucydides' Work |
| Box 23 Folder 6 | Xenophon's Socratic Discourse |
| Box 23 Folder 7 | "An Epilogue," for Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics, edited by H. J. Storing |
| Box 23 Folder 8 | "Exoteric Teaching" |
| Box 23 Folder 9 | "On the Minos" |
| Box 23 Folder 10 | "Natural Law" |
| Box 23 Folder 11 | "On Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito" |
| Box 23 Folder 12 | Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, Preface |
| Box 23 Folder 13 | "Thousand and One Nights" |
Series IV: Publications and Reviews |
Series IV is divided into three subseries. Subseries 1, Writings by Strauss, includes manuscripts and reprints of Strauss writings, from the 1920s into the 1970s. Subseries 2 includes a small number of published or photocopied writings by others. Subseries 3 contains reviews of Strauss' writings.
Subseries 1: Writings by Strauss |
| Box 24 Folder 1 | Das Erkenntnisproblem der philosophischen Lehre Jacobis, See Box 15 Folder 1 |
| Box 24 Folder 2 | Auszug aus der Dissertation (Abstract); Leo Strauss' review of Ebbinghaus |
| Box 24 Folder 3 | Hobbes politische Wissenschaft in ihrer Genesis (typescript) |
| Box 24 Folder 4 | Einleitung zu Mendellssohns "Morgenstunden" und "An die Freunde Lessings" mit Kommentar (typescript) |
| Box 24 Folder 5 | correspondence and notes regarding Einleitung zu Mendellssohns "Morgenstunden" und "An die Freunde Lessings" mit Kommentar |
| Box 24 Folder 6 | Xenophon: Anabasis (typescript and photocopy) |
| Box 24 Folder 7 | Plato's Laws, Book 1-6 (typescript) |
| Box 24 Folder 8 | Plato's Laws, Book 7-12 (typescript) |
| Box 24 Folder 9 | Writings, 1934-1959
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| Box 25 Folder 1 | "Das Erkenntnisproblem in der philosophischen Lehre Fr. H. Jacobis," doctoral dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1921, typescript (2 copies) |
| Box 25 Folder 2 | Writings, 1923
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| Box 25 Folder 3 | Writings, 1924
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| Box 25 Folder 4 | Writings, 1925-1926
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| Box 25 Folder 5 | Die Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft: Untersuchungen zu Spinozas Theologisch-politischem Traktat, 1930, review by Gerhard Kruger, Deutsche Literaturzeitung 51 (1931): 2407-2412 |
| Box 25 Folder 6 | Writings, 1932-1933
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| Box 25 Folder 7 | Writings, 1936
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| Box 25 Folder 8 | Writings, 1937
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| Box 26 Folder 1 | Writings, 1926-1959
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| Box 26 Folder 2 | Writings, 1959-1973, n.d.
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| Box 26 Folder 3 | "The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed," reprinted from chapter three of Essays on Maimonides, Columbia University Press, n.d., heavily annotated by Strauss with inserted notes and correspondence |
Subseries 2: Writings by Others |
| Box 26 Folder 4 | Reviews and articles, 1972, n.d.
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Subseries 3: Reviews of Strauss' work |
| Box 26 Folder 5 | Liberalism: Ancient and Modern, 1968 |
| Box 26 Folder 6 | History of Political Philosophy; Socrates and Aristophanes, 1963 |
| Box 26 Folder 7 | Maimonides: The Guide of the Perplexed, 1963 |
| Box 26 Folder 8 | What is Political Philosophy? And other studies, 1959 |
| Box 26 Folder 9 | Thoughts on Machiavelli, 1958 |
| Box 26 Folder 10-11 | Natural Right and History, 1953 |
| Box 26 Folder 12 | Persecution and the Art of Writing, 1952 |
| Box 27 | Folder, 1: On Tyranny, 1948 |
| Box 27 Folder 2 | On Tyranny, 1963 |
| Box 27 Folder 3 | Philosophie und Gesetz, 1935 |
| Box 27 Folder 4 | Spinoza's Critique of Religion, 1931 and, 1962 |
| Box 27 Folder 5 | The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, 1936; 1952; 1962; and 1966 |
| Box 27 Folder 6 | Articles on Strauss' work in general
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| Box 27 Folder 7 | Reviews, 1931-1973
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| Box 27 Folder 8 | Memorials and biographical articles, 1972-1974, n.d.
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Series V: Personal Files |
Series V contains a small number of documents related to Strauss' biography and personal life. In addition to biographical items and identification documents, the Personal files include a brief diary kept by Strauss in 1944 and several of the many awards he received in the later years of his career.
| Box 28 Folder 1 | Passports, certificate of literacy, voter identification cards, Naturalization Papers |
| Box 28 Folder 2 | miscellaneous notes, programs, and memberships |
| Box 28 Folder 3 | note about Professor David Spitz; Leo Strauss' vita 1938 |
| Box 28 Folder 4 | Dinner speech at the New School 1941; letters and program regarding the Annual meeting of the Conference on Jewish Relations 1943 |
| Box 28 Folder 5 | Diary, presented by J. Guttmann, with a few entries 1944 |
| Box 28 Folder 6 | Honors, 1964-1966
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| Box 28 Folder 7 | Citation for Doctor of Laws, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, 1969 |
| Box 28 Folder 8 | Diploma, honorary Doctor of Laws, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, 1969 |
| Box 28 Folder 9 | Citation for Doctor of Laws, Dropsie College, 1963 |
| Box 28 Folder 10 | Articles about Strauss 1967-1968 |
| Box 28 Folder 11 | Letter from Laurence Berns to Joseph Cropsey concerning the disposition of the Leo Strauss papers 1976 |
| Box 28 Folder 12 | Strauss memorials; photograph of Leo Strauss and Marie Bernsohn Strauss |
Series VI: Oversized Documents |
| Box 29 Folder 1 | Hebrew newspaper |
| Box 29 Folder 2 | Certificates
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| Box 30 | Mimeograph, Nietzsche, Lecture 1, 1962 |
| Box 30 | Mimeograph, Nietzsche, Lecture 2, 1962 |
| Box 30 | Mimeograph, Montesquieu, session 27, 1966 |
| Box 30 | Mimeograph, Political Science 256, final examination, 1977 |
| Box 30 | Mimeograph, "Second meeting, December 5, 1972," 1972 |
Series VII: Audio Recordings |
Series VII, Audio-Visual, contains audio recordings of Strauss lectures, primarily from the 1960s. The recordings are arranged chronologically. Subseries 1 contains original and new master copies. These are not available for listening. Subseries 2 contains access copies of many of the recordings, on audio cassette. These are available for listening onsite. Items from Subseries 1, for which access copies are not available in Subseries 2, may be eligible for reproduction. Please see Special Collections Research Center staff for further information.
Digitized recordings and transcripts of many lectures are available from the Leo Strauss Center.
Subseries 1: Masters |
| Box 31 | Conversation with Martin Buber, December 3, 1951 (1 new master) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 31 | Alexander Altman lecture, 1957 (1 new master) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 31 | Kant, lectures 1-16, spring 1958 (13 old master reels) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 31 | Kant, lectures 1-3, spring 1958 (7 new masters reels) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 32 | Kant, lectures 4-9, spring 1958 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 33 | Kant, lectures 10-16, spring 1958 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 34 | Kant, lecture 16, spring 1958 (1 new master) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 34 | Cicero, May 1959 (3 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 34 | Cicero, 1959 (3 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 34 | On Reason and Revelation, 1960 (1 new master) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 34 | Crisis of Modernity, 1960 (1 new master) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 34 | Origins of Political Science, lectures 1-15, 1960 (15 old masters) |
| Box 35 | Aristotle’s Politics, spring 1960 (16 old masters) |
| Box 35 | Marx, Lectures 1-5, 7-16, spring 1960 (15 old masters) |
| Box 35 | Marx, spring 1960 (lecture transcript) |
| Box 36 | Natural Right, lectures 1-8, fall 1962 (8 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 36 | Natural Right, lectures 1-6, fall 1962 (12 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 37 | Natural Right, lectures 7-8, fall 1962 (4 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 37 | Rousseau, 1962 (4 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 38 | Xenophon, winter 1963 (7 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 38 | Xenophon, winter 1963 (7 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 39 | Vico/New Science, lectures 1-17, fall 1963 (16 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 39 | Vico/New Science, lectures 1-3, fall 1963 (5 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 40 | Vico/New Science, lectures 3-10, fall 1963 (12 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 41 | Vico/New Science, lectures 10-17, fall 1963 (12 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 42 | Plato’s Gorgias, lectures 1-15, fall 1963 (15 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 43 | Hobbes, lectures 1-16, winter 1964 (16 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 43 | Hobbes, lectures 1-3, winter 1964 (6 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 44 | Hobbes, lectures 4-10, winter 1964 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 45 | Hobbes, lectures 10-16, winter 1964 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 46 | Aristotle’s Rhetoric, lectures 1-16, spring 1964 (16 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 46 | Aristotle’s Rhetoric, lectures 1-4, spring 1964 (8 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 47 | Aristotle’s Rhetoric, lectures 5-11, spring 1964 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 48 | Aristotle’s Rhetoric, lectures 12-16, spring 1964 (10 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 48 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lectures 1-10, winter 1965, (10 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 49 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lectures 1-7, winter 1965 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 50 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lectures 8-10, winter 1965 (6 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 50 | Hegel-Philosophy of History, lectures 1-16, winter 1965 (16 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 51 | Hegel-Philosophy of History, lectures 1-6, winter 1965 (12 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 52 | Hegel-Philosophy of History, lectures 6-12, winter 1965 (12 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 53 | Hegel-Philosophy of History, lectures 13-16, winter 1965 (8 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 53 | Philosophy of Plato, Protagoras, spring 1965 (17 old masters)
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| Box 54 | Montesquieu Seminar, lectures 1-33, 1965-1966 (18 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 54 | Montesquieu-Fall, lectures 1-2, fall 1965 (4 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 55 | Montesquieu Winter, lectures 1-9, winter 1966 (9 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 55 | Montesquieu-Spring, lectures 1-4, spring 1966 (4 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 56 | Montesquieu-Spring, spring 1966 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 57 | Montesquieu-Spring, spring 1966 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 58 | Plato’s Meno, fall 1965 (2 new masters) |
| Box 58 | Plato’s Meno, lectures 1-16, spring 1966, (9 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 58 | Plato’s Meno, lectures 1-4, spring 1966 (7 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 59 | Plato’s Meno, lectures 4-10, spring 1966, (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 60 | Plato’s Meno, lectures 10-16, spring 1966 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 61 | Plato’s Apology/Crito, lectures 1-17, fall 1966 (9 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 61 | Plato’s Apology/Crito, lectures 1-4, fall 1966 (8 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 62 | Plato’s Apology/Crito, lectures 5-11, fall 1966 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 63 | Plato’s Apology/Crito, lectures 11-17, fall 1966 (11 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 64 | Kant, lectures 1-17, spring 1967 (9 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 64 | Kant, lectures 1-5, spring 1967 (9 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 65 | Kant, lectures 5-11, spring 1967 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 66 | Kant, lectures 12-17, spring 1967 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 66A | The Socratic Question, February 15, 1968 (2 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 67 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 2-26, winter/spring 1968 (24 old masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 67 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 2-8, winter/spring 1968 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 68 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 9-16, winter/spring 1968 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 69 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 17-24, winter/spring 1968 (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 70 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 25-26, winter/spring 1968 (4 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 70 | The Origins of Political Philosophy, lectures 1-5, undated, (9 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 71 | The Origins of Political Philosophy, lectures 4-10, undated, (13 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 72 | The Origins of Political Philosophy, lectures 11-15, undated (11 new masters) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 72 | Jerusalem Lectures, undated (1 new master) |
| Box 72 | Genesis, undated (1 new master) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 72 | Religion and the Commonweal, undated (1 new master) See Subseries 2 for access copies |
| Box 73 | Thucydides-Peloponnesian War, 1972-1973 (16 original cassettes) |
| Box 74 | Economics, undated (5 original cassettes) |
| Box 74 | Memorabilia, undated (14 original cassettes) |
Subseries 2: Access Copies |
| Box 75 | Series of lectures given at Hillel House, 1950-1963 (17 access copies) |
| Box 76 | Series of lectures given at Hillel House, 1950-1963 (8 access copies) |
| Box 76 | Conversation with Martin Buber, December 3, 1951 (1 access copies) |
| Box 76 | Alexander Altman lecture, 1957 (1 access copy) |
| Box 76 | Kant, lectures 1-3, spring 1958 (7 access copies) |
| Box 77 | Kant, lectures 4-11, spring 1958 (16 access copies) |
| Box 78 | Kant, lectures 12-16, spring 1958 (10 access copies) |
| Box 78 | Cicero, 1959 (1 access copy) |
| Box 78 | On Reason and Revelation, 1960 (1 access copy) |
| Box 78 | Crisis of Modernity, 1960 (1 access copy) |
| Box 78 | Natural Right, lectures 1-3, fall 1962 (6 access copies) |
| Box 79 | Natural Right, lectures 4-8, fall 1962 (11 access copies) |
| Box 79 | Rousseau, 1962 (6 access copies) |
| Box 79 | Xenophon, 1963 (2 access copies) |
| Box 80 | Xenophon, 1963 (6 access copies) |
| Box 80 | Vico/New Science, lectures 1-6, fall 1963 (12 access copies) |
| Box 81 | Vico/New Science, lectures 6-15, fall 1963 (18 access copies) |
| Box 81 | Cicero, spring 1964 (2 access copies) |
| Box 82 | Plato’s Gorgias, lectures 1-8, fall 1963, (18 access copies) |
| Box 83 | Plato’s Gorgias, lectures 8-15, fall 1963, (19 access copies) |
| Box 84 | Hobbes, lectures 1-7, winter 1964 (14 access copies) |
| Box 85 | Hobbes, lectures 8-16, winter 1964 (17 access copies) |
| Box 86 | Hobbes, lectures 16, winter 1964 (1 access copy) |
| Box 86 | Aristotle’s Rhetoric, lectures 1-8, spring 1964 (16 access copies)
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| Box 87 | Aristotle’s Rhetoric, lectures 9-16, spring 1964 (15 access copies)
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| Box 87 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lecture 1, winter 1968 (2 access copies) |
| Box 88 | Introduction to Political Philosophy, lectures 2-9, winter 1965 (16 access copies) |
| Box 89 | Hegel, Lectures 1-9, winter 1965 (17 access copies) |
| Box 90 | Hegel, Lectures 9-16, winter 1965 (15 access copies) |
| Box 90 | Montesquieu-Fall, lecture 1, fall 1965 (1 access copy) |
| Box 91 | Montesquieu-Fall, lectures 1-2, fall 1965 (3 access copies) |
| Box 91 | Montesquieu Winter, lectures 13-17, winter 1966 (9 access copies) |
| Box 91 | Montesquieu-Spring, spring 1966 (5 access copies) |
| Box 92 | Montesquieu-Spring, spring 1966 (17 access copies) |
| Box 93 | Montesquieu-Spring, spring 1966 (8 access copies) |
| Box 93 | Plato’s Meno, lectures 1-4, spring 1966 (9 access copies) |
| Box 94 | Plato’s Meno, lectures 4-12, spring 1966 (17 access copies) |
| Box 95 | Plato’s Meno, lectures 13-16, spring 1966 (8 access copies) |
| Box 95 | Plato’s Apology/Crito, lectures 1-5, fall 1966 (9 access copies) |
| Box 96 | Plato’s Apology/Crito, lectures 5-13, fall 1966 (17 access copies) |
| Box 97 | Plato’s Apology/Crito, lectures 14-16, fall 1966 (6 access copies) |
| Box 97 | Kant, lectures 1-6, spring 1967 (11 access copies) |
| Box 98 | Kant, lectures 6-16, spring 1967 (17 access copies) |
| Box 99 | Kant, lectures 14-17, spring 1967 (6 access copies) |
| Box 99 | The Socaratic Question, February 15, 1968, (2 access copies) |
| Box 99 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 2-7, winter/spring 1968 (11 access copies) |
| Box 100 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 8-17, winter/spring 1968 (17 access copies) |
| Box 101 | Nichomachean Ethics, lectures 18-26, winter/spring 1968 (15 access copies) |
| Box 101 | The Origins of Political Philosophy, lecture 1, undated (2 access copies) |
| Box 102 | The Origins of Political Philosophy, lectures 2-9, undated (17 access copies) |
| Box 103 | The Origins of Political Philosophy, lectures 9-15, undated (14 access copies) |
| Box 103 | Genesis, undated (1 access copy) |
| Box 103 | Religion and the Commonweal, undated (1 access copy) |
Series VIII: Restricted |
Series VIII contains files to which access is restricted. Subseries 1 includes letters of recommendation written by Strauss for his students. Subseries 2 includes correspondence between Strauss and Gershom Scholem, scholar of Jewish mysticism. Access to and use of these materials is restricted in accordance with the notice below:
NOTE: Purchased From The Department Of Manuscripts And Archives, Jewish National And University Library, Jerusalem, September 1995. This material can be cited only with permission of the Department of Manuscripts and Archives, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. No photocopies can be made without permission of the Department Of Manuscripts And Archives, Jewish National And University Library, Jerusalem.
Subseries 1: Letters of Recommendation |
| Box 104 RESTRICTED Folder 1 | A-L |
| Box 104 RESTRICTED Folder 2 | M-Z |
Subseries 2: Correspondence (purchased from Jewish National and University Library) |
| Box 105 RESTRICTED | Gershom Scholem, correspondence, 1929-1973 |