Straussian

comparative more Straussian · superlative most Straussian

1. Of, or relating to Leo Strauss or his philosophy.

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   When Field is not invoking the founding to bash the “post-liberals” and “national conservatives,” she sides with her “East Coast” Straussian teachers against Claremont. Yet if one side of the Straussian divide can be said to be “pro-democracy,” it is the Jaffa-inspired West Coasters, whom Field dismisses as holding a “hagiographic view of the founding generation.”

   2026, Michael Anton, “Fury Road”, in The Claremont Review of Books, The Claremont Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC

2. Of or pertaining to Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss

plural Straussians

1. A follower of this philosophy.