Lamprecht, Cambridge Historiography, and a prelude to the philosophy of philosophy:
(The bit on Leo Strauss is just bait.)
Regular readers may recall that I have been interested in the reception of Leo Strauss by analytic philosophers. His first (1936) monograph in English, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and its Genesis, has an odd position in this reception. Even Strauss' harshest critics tend to express admiration for it. So, for example, in an otherwise cr…
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