The Leo Strauss Center held a conference on “Leo Strauss as Teacher” on April 22-23 in Social Science 122 (a lecture hall where Strauss himself occasionally taught) on the campus of the University of Chicago. The conference marked the publication on the Center’s website of digitally remastered audiofiles made from the surviving audiotapes of Leo Strauss’s courses. It provided an opportunity to remember, think about, and discuss the example Strauss provided of a great teacher and to talk about the issues involved in preparing the transcripts of his courses for publication. For more about the Leo Strauss Center visit: leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu This panel is made up of scholars who had edited transcripts on the basis of audio files and the French translator of Strauss, who is currently preparing for publication in French the transcripts of Strauss’s courses on Montesquieu, corrected against the audiofiles. Chair: Christopher Lynch – Carthage College Christopher Nadon – Claremont McKenna College (starts at 00:42) Steven Lenzner – Leo Strauss Project (starts at 22:58) Olivier Sedeyn – Institut Eleuthère, France (starts at 47:30) Catherine Zuckert – Notre Dame University (starts at 1:18:54) Group discussion (starts at 1:44:20)

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