Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index.
Foreword / Michael Zuckert -- 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 -- An 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