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Hilail Gildin

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Hilail Gildin
BornNovember 28, 1928
DiedMarch 4, 2015(2015-03-04) (aged 86)
Manhattan, New York, United States
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
School
Main interests

Hilail Gildin was an American scholar and editor.[1] He served as professor of philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York.[1] He was also the editor-in-chief of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.[2]

He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1962 by the University of Chicago, where he was a student of Leo Strauss, with whom Gildin collaborated closely in the establishment of the journal Interpretation.[1]

Bibliography

  • The problem of political liberty in Mill and Spinoza (1962)
  • Rousseau's Social Contract: The Design of the Argument (1985)
  • An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Ten Essays by Leo Strauss (ed., 1989)
  • 'Deja Jew All Over Again: Dannhauser on Leo Strauss and Atheism.' Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 25, no. 1 (Fall 1997): pp. 125–33.

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