Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Writer and Historian

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian. He is the author of Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt (2016) and Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food (2019).

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essayPolitical philosophy

Against public philosophy

For Leo Strauss, public life was muddied by opinion and persecution, so philosophers should shield their work from view

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft