Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Editors’ Note xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Introduction to Political Philosophy
8. Leo Strauss on the Relation of Theory to Practice 25
9. What Can We Learn from Political Theory? (1942) 33
10. 2. The Historical Approach
11. Breaking Free from the Spell of Historicism 55
12. Historicism (1941) 68
13. 3. Facts and Values
14. Is There a Natural Framework for the Social Sciences? 97
15. The Frame of Reference in the Social Sciences (1945) 105
16. 4. Recovering the Classics
17. A Presentation of Exotericism in Classical Political Philosophy 117
18. On the Study of Classical Political Philosophy (1938) 126
19. 5. Modern Natural Right
20. Hobbes as the Founder of Modern Political Philosophy 155
21. The Origin of Modern Political Thought (1937) 163
22. 6. The Crisis of Natural Right
23. Recovering Natural Right 209
24. Natural Right (1946) 221
25. An Afterword
26. Toward Strauss’s Intention and Teaching in Natural Right and History 255
27. Appendix
28. Leo Strauss: Courses at the New School for Social Research 285
29. References 297
30. Index 303