* Strauss, Leo ( 1964 ).

Leo Strauss used the term historicism and reportedly called it the single greatest threat to intellectual freedom.

* Strauss, Leo ( 1953 ).

* Strauss, Leo ( 1947 ).

Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron.

More recently, commentators such as Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield have agreed that the Prince can be read as having a deliberate comical irony.

Others, such as Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield, have argued strongly that there is a very strong and deliberate consistency and distinctness, even arguing that this extends to all of Machiavelli's works including his comedies and letters.

Commentators such as Leo Strauss have gone so far as to name Machiavelli as the deliberate originator of modernity itself.

Leo Strauss argued that the strong influence of Xenophon, a student of Socrates more known as an historian, rhetorician and soldier, was a major source of Socratic ideas for Machiavelli, sometimes not in line with Aristotle.

Leo Strauss, an American political philosopher, declared himself more inclined toward the traditional view that Machiavelli was self-consciously a " teacher of evil ," ( even if he was not himself evil ) since he counsels the princes to avoid the values of justice, mercy, temperance, wisdom, and love of their people in preference to the use of cruelty, violence, fear, and deception.

He estimated that these sects last from 1666 to 3000 years each time, which, as pointed out by Leo Strauss, would mean that Christianity became due to start finishing about 150 years after Machiavelli.

An influential analysis of political nihilism is presented by Leo Strauss.

A number of continental European émigrés to Britain and the United States — including Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar — encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their students remained at odds with the analytic establishment.

* Leo Strauss: Famously rejected modernity, mostly on the grounds of what he perceived to be modern political philosophy's excessive self-sufficiency of reason and flawed philosophical grounds for moral and political normativity.

Leo Strauss ( in The City and Man ) locates the problem in the nature of Athenian democracy itself, about which, he argued, Thucydides had a deeply ambivalent view: on one hand, Thucydides ' own " wisdom was made possible " by the Periclean democracy, which had the effect of liberating individual daring, enterprise and questioning spirit, but this same liberation, by permitting the growth of limitless political ambition, led to imperialism and, eventually, civic strife.

At the same time, Thucydides ' influence was increasingly important in the area of international relations during the Cold War, through the work of Hans Morgenthau, Leo Strauss and Edward Carr.

* Strauss, Leo, The City and Man Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.

* Leo Strauss ' 1962 Seminar course transcript on Thucydides.

Political philosophers Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt received their university education during the Weimar Republic and moved in Jewish intellectual circles in Berlin, and were associated with Norbert Elias, Leo Löwenthal, Karl Löwith, Julius Guttmann, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, and Alexander Altmann.

Carl Schmitt, a legal and political scholar, was also a vocal fascist supporter of both the Nazi regime and Spain's Franco ; however, he published works of political philosophy that remained studied by philosophers and political scholars with radically different views, such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and his contemporaries Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Leo Strauss.

Xenophon's standing as a political philosopher has been defended in recent times by Leo Strauss, who devoted a considerable part of his philosophic analysis to the works of Xenophon, returning to the high judgment of Xenophon as a thinker expressed by Shaftesbury, Winckelmann, Machiavelli, and John Adams.

Leo Strauss has argued that this work is in fact by Xenophon, whose ironic posing he believes has been utterly missed by contemporary scholarship.

* Strauss, Leo.

* Leo Strauss ' Seminar Transcripts on Xenophon ( 1962, 1966 ); and an audio recording of the entire course on Xenophon's Oeconomicus ( 1969 ) are available for reading, listening or download.

* 1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer ( d. 1899 )

* October 25 – Johann Strauss, Junior, Austrian composer ( d. 1899 )

Johann Strauss II ( October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899 ), also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son (), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas.

Strauss also wrote an opera, Ritter Pázmán, and was in the middle of composing a ballet, Aschenbrödel, when he died in 1899.

Strauss was diagnosed with pleural pneumonia in the spring of 1899, and died in Vienna, at the age of 73.

* Johann Strauss II ( 1825 – 1899 ), or Johann Strauss Jr., composer, known as the " Waltz King ", son of Johann I

In Paris ( 1899 ), the orchestration owes a debt to Richard Strauss ; its passages of quiet beauty, says Payne, nevertheless lack the deep personal involvement of the later works.

Leo Strauss ( September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973 ) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy.

Leo Strauss was born in the small town of Kirchhain in Hessen-Nassau, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia ( part of the German Empire ), on September 20, 1899, to Hugo Strauss and Jennie Strauss, née David.

His work there included a highly controversial staging of Strauss ’ Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí and also an effective re-staging of Puccini ’ s La Boheme using sets dating from 1899.

* September 25 – Johann Strauss II, conductor and composer ( d. 1899 )

* Johann Strauss II ( 1825 – 1899 ), composer

Johann Strauss II ( 1825 – 1899 ), the " waltz king ", contributed Die Fledermaus ( 1874 ) and The Gypsy Baron ( 1885 ).

However, personal setbacks in the 1890s, such as the death of brother Johann Strauss II in 1899, and his realization that his immediate family had squandered his personal fortune, led Eduard Strauss to decide on retirement.

Eduard Strauss engaged in the final tour of his musical career to North America in 1899 and in 1901, disbanded the Strauss Orchestra, and returned to Vienna where he died in 1916.

However, Strauss died in 1899, and it was finished by composer Josef Bayer in 1900.

By the time Strauss died in Vienna on 3 June 1899, the work lay unfinished, although sketches of the entire work were already done.