Alberto Ghibellini is Adjunct Professor of Law and Political Thought at the University of Torino, Italy. He is the author of Al di là della politica. Filosofia e retorica in Leo Strauss and the coeditor (with Charlotte Sieber-Gasser) of Democracy and Globalization: Legal and Political Analysis on the Eve of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

"Ghibellini has a remarkable command of his subject, from Strauss's published work to all the archival material published in the last twenty years, including his correspondence with Karl Löwith and Gerhard Krüger. His study sheds a relevant light on the origin and development of Strauss's philosophic questioning from the most important and vital question for Strauss: what is the best life?" — Daniel Tanguay, University of Ottawa

• AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction "What Is Nature?" Leo Strauss and Socrates's Turn to logoi1. Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Search for the "Order of Human Things"2. Ancient Liberalism vs. Modern Liberalism3. The "Second Cave" and Historical Consciousness in the Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger4. Natural Right in Strauss and Krüger's Exchange5. Strauss and the "Politicization of Philosophy"6. The "Pit beneath the Cave" and the Problem of Natural RightConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex of Names

Alberto Ghibellini is Adjunct Professor of Law and Political Thought at the University of Torino, Italy. He is the author of Al di là della politica. Filosofia e retorica in Leo Strauss and the coeditor (with Charlotte Sieber-Gasser) of Democracy and Globalization: Legal and Political Analysis on the Eve of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

"Ghibellini has a remarkable command of his subject, from Strauss's published work to all the archival material published in the last twenty years, including his correspondence with Karl Löwith and Gerhard Krüger. His study sheds a relevant light on the origin and development of Strauss's philosophic questioning from the most important and vital question for Strauss: what is the best life?" — Daniel Tanguay, University of Ottawa

• AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction "What Is Nature?" Leo Strauss and Socrates's Turn to logoi1. Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Search for the "Order of Human Things"2. Ancient Liberalism vs. Modern Liberalism3. The "Second Cave" and Historical Consciousness in the Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger4. Natural Right in Strauss and Krüger's Exchange5. Strauss and the "Politicization of Philosophy"6. The "Pit beneath the Cave" and the Problem of Natural RightConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex of Names

Alberto Ghibellini is Adjunct Professor of Law and Political Thought at the University of Torino, Italy. He is the author of Al di là della politica. Filosofia e retorica in Leo Strauss and the coeditor (with Charlotte Sieber-Gasser) of Democracy and Globalization: Legal and Political Analysis on the Eve of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

"Ghibellini has a remarkable command of his subject, from Strauss's published work to all the archival material published in the last twenty years, including his correspondence with Karl Löwith and Gerhard Krüger. His study sheds a relevant light on the origin and development of Strauss's philosophic questioning from the most important and vital question for Strauss: what is the best life?" — Daniel Tanguay, University of Ottawa

• AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction "What Is Nature?" Leo Strauss and Socrates's Turn to logoi1. Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Search for the "Order of Human Things"2. Ancient Liberalism vs. Modern Liberalism3. The "Second Cave" and Historical Consciousness in the Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger4. Natural Right in Strauss and Krüger's Exchange5. Strauss and the "Politicization of Philosophy"6. The "Pit beneath the Cave" and the Problem of Natural RightConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex of Names