Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss : German émigrés and American political thought after World War II / edited by Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.

Introduction / Peter Graf Kielmansegg -- Part I. Hannah Arendt -- Hannah Arendt and the theory of democracy : A critical reconstruction / Helmut Dubiel -- The questionable influence of Arendt (and Strauss) / George Kateb -- Hannah Arendt : A German-American Jewess views the United States - and looks back to Germany / Ernst Vollrath -- Part II. Leo Strauss -- Reflections on Leo Strauss and American education / Timothy Fuller -- Leo Strauss : The quest for truth in times of perplexity / Jurgen Gebhardt -- Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger : Greek antiquity and the meaning of modernity / Horst Mewes -- Leo Strauss : German origin and American impact / Alfons Sollner -- The modern world of Leo Strauss / Robert B. Pippin -- Part III. Roundtable discussion -- The influence of German philosophy -- The American experience -- Views on democracy.