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Committee on Social Thought
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ABOUT

Heinrich Meier is Director emeritus of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich, and permanent Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(ed.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes / Diskurs über den Ursprung und die Grundlagen der Ungleichheit unter den Menschen. Newly edited, translated, and with commentary. Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag, 1984. Seventh edition, 2019.

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Revised paperback edition, 2006.

The Lesson of Carl Schmitt: Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Expanded paperback edition, 2011.

Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Paperback edition, 2007.

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life: Reflections on Rousseau’s “Rêveries” in Two Books. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Paperback edition, 2018.

What Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? A Philosophical Confrontation. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 

Nietzsche’s Legacy: “Ecce Homo” and “The Antichrist”. Two Books on Nature and Politics. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press 2024

(ed.) Leo Strauss: Gesammelte Schriften. 4 volumes. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler Verlag, 1996–2001, and Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2022. 

COURSES TAUGHT

Rousseau and Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life. Part I: “The Reveries of the Solitary Walker”

Rousseau and Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life. Part II: “Ecce Homo”

Rousseau and the “Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar”

Leo Strauss's “Thoughts on Machiavelli”

The Right of Politics and the Knowledge of the Philosopher: Rousseau’s “On the Social Contract”

Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Antichrist” or What Is a Philosopher?

Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”

Friedrich Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols"

Leo Strauss on the Philosophic Life

Friedrich Nietzsche's “Beyond Good and Evil”

Leo Strauss's "Natural Right and History"

Jerusalem and Athens: Leo Strauss on the Conflict Between Faith in Revelation and Philosophy

Leo Strauss and Lucretius On the Nature of Things

Philosophy and Comedy: Leo Strauss's "Socrates and Aristophanes"

Philosophy and Politics: Leo Strauss’s “The City and Man”