Foreword Michael Zuckert Abbreviations Editors' Note Introduction J. A. Colen and Svetozar Minkov 1. Introduction to Political Philosophy Leo Strauss on the Relation of Theory to Practice Nathan Tarcov What Can We Learn from Political Theory? (1942) Leo Strauss 2. The Historical Approach Breaking Free from the Spell of Historicism Daniel Tanguay Historicism (1941) Leo Strauss 3. Facts and Values Is There a Natural Framework for the Social Sciences? J. A. Colen The Frame of Reference in the Social Sciences (1945) Leo Strauss 4.

Recovering the Classics A Presentation of Exotericism in Classical Political Philosophy Christopher Lynch On the Study of Classical Political Philosophy (1938) Leo Strauss 5. Modern Natural Right Hobbes as the Founder of Modern Political Philosophy Svetozar Minkov The Origin of Modern Political Thought (1937) Leo Strauss 6. The Crisis of Natural Right Recovering Natural Right J. A. Colen Natural Right (1946) Leo Strauss Afterword. Toward Strauss's Intention and Teaching in Natural Right and History J. A. Colen Appendix.

Leo Strauss: Courses at the New School for Social Research Svetozar Minkov References Index.