Blaming the Jews
May 10, 2004 · Werner J. Dannhauser, Magazine, Books and Arts
Never Again?
Political Philosopher and Essayist
Werner Dannhauser
6 articles 1995–2004
Werner Dannhauser is a political philosopher and professor emeritus at Cornell University, known for his expertise in political theory, philosophy, and Jewish thought. A student of Leo Strauss and close friend of Allan Bloom, he contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics spanning Jewish identity, intellectual history, and the intersection of faith and reason. His writing reflected deep engagement with both American conservatism and the Western philosophical tradition.
A Feminist for Zion
October 13, 2003 · Werner J. Dannhauser, Magazine, Books and Arts
The New Anti-Semitism
Angst, American Style
April 21, 2003 · Werner J. Dannhauser, Magazine, Books and Arts
Existential America
Oy Vey!
March 31, 2003 · Werner J. Dannhauser, Magazine, Books and Arts
Jewish Polity and American Civil Society
Faith and Reason
November 4, 2002 · Werner J. Dannhauser, Magazine, Books and Arts
Gladly to Learn and Gladly to Teach Essays on Religion and Political Philosophy in Honor of Ernest L. Fortin, A.A. edited by Michael P. Foley and Douglas Kries Lexington, 344 pp., $75 Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages Dante and His Precursors by Ernest L. Fortin Lexington, 182 pp., $22.95…
MY FRIEND, ALLAN BLOOM
October 9, 1995 · Werner J. Dannhauser, Blog
I met Allan Bloom at the University of Chicago in 1956, in a class on Plato's Republic. Allan already had his Ph.D. from the university's Committee on Social Thought, but he kept right on coming to classes while teaching adult education courses downtown in the university's Basic Program of Liberal…