The Cambridge companion to Leo Strauss / edited by Steven B. Smith.

Introduction : Leo Strauss today / Steven B. Smith
Leo Strauss : the outlines of a life / Steven B. Smith
Leo Strauss and the "theologico-political predicament" / Leora Batnitzky
Strauss's recovery of esotericism / Laurence Lampert
Strauss's return to premodern thought / Catherine Zuckert
Leo Strauss and the problem of the modern / Stanley Rosen
The medieval Arabic enlightenment / Joel L. Kraemer
"To spare the vanquished and crush the arrogant" : Leo Strauss's lecture on "German nihilism" / Susan Shell
Leo Strauss's qualified embrace of liberal democracy / William A. Galston
Strauss and social science / Nasser Behnegar
The complementarity of political philosophy and liberal education in the thought of Leo Strauss / Timothy Fuller
Straussians / Michael Zuckert.