LEO STRAUSS (1899-1973), filosof american de origine germană. Principalele scrieri: Die Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft: Untersuchungen zu Spinozas Theologisch-politischem Traktat (1930), The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (1936), Natural Right and History (1953), The City and Man (1964), Liberalism. Ancient and Modern (1968).