He included "A" and "B" reading lists after each chapter of his History of Political Philosophy, and his prominent students include Allan Bloom and Paul Wolfowitz.
Heinrich Meier published a "hidden dialogue" between this man and Carl Schmitt, whose theories he deemed inadequate in the essay "Notes on Carl Schmitt's "Concept of the Political." This philosopher argued that governments are based on necessary myths and lies in his The City and Man. He argued that much of ancient and medieval philosophical work has an esoteric message that is concealed by an exoteric one in order to avoid challenging religious dogma and provoking persecution by hostile authorities in his Persecution and the Art of Writing. He included "A" and "B" reading lists after each chapter of his History of Political Philosophy, and his prominent students include Allan Bloom and Paul Wolfowitz. For 10 points, name this Jewish German-American philosopher whose writings are a founding influence on modern conservatism.
Heinrich Meier published a "hidden dialogue" between this man and Carl Schmitt, whose theories he deemed inadequate in the essay "Notes on Carl Schmitt's "Concept of the Political."
{Leo Strauss}