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Werner J. Dannhauser
Werner Joseph Dannhauser (May 1, 1929 – April 26, 2014) was an American political philosophy professor and magazine editor. A German-Jewish émigré, he became an expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and on Judaism and politics and was a longtime professor of government at Cornell University. A protégé of Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago, Dannhauser had earlier been a writer and editor at Commentary magazine during the 1960s.
Dannhauser was born on May 1, 1929, in Buchau in southwestern Germany.
In early 1939, at the age of nine, Dannhauser came to the United States in order to escape Nazi Germany. An older brother Jacob (1922–1998) and an older sister Rose (1924–2018) also came with him. He became an American citizen in 1944. He completed the rest of his childhood in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was active in the congregation known as The Temple.
Dannhauser earned a bachelor's degree from The New School for Social Research in 1951.
In the mid-1950s, Dannhauser came to the University of Chicago as a graduate student in the Committee on Social Thought. There he studied for his Ph.D. under Leo Strauss, whom he had first heard speak at the New School in New York City. Dannhauser soon became a disciple of Strauss's; when later characterized as a Straussian, he said "I wear the label with pride".
During the 1955–56 year, he was awarded a Fulbright Grant for study in Germany. His efforts as a student in that country included time spent at the University of Berlin and at Heidelberg University.
In the early 1960s, Dannhauser held the position of lecturer in the liberal arts at the University of Chicago. During several summers, he taught classes on poetry and drama at The Clearing Folk School in Door County, Wisconsin. He was also an instructor at the University of Maryland at some point. For 1963–64 he received an appointment as an instructor in government at Claremont Men's College.
By 1963, Dannhauser's doctoral thesis, entitled The Political Philosophy of Nietzsche, was described as having been accepted for publication. The political theorist Hannah Arendt, who had an affiliation with the Committee on Social Thought, had an awareness of Dannhauser's work on his dissertation, and objected to his "tone-deafness" and what she saw as one-dimensional interpretations that ignored elements of irony and ambiguity in Nietzsche's work. In any case, Dannhauser would not finally get his Ph.D. degree until eight years later.
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Werner J. Dannhauser
Werner Joseph Dannhauser (May 1, 1929 – April 26, 2014) was an American political philosophy professor and magazine editor. A German-Jewish émigré, he became an expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and on Judaism and politics and was a longtime professor of government at Cornell University. A protégé of Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago, Dannhauser had earlier been a writer and editor at Commentary magazine during the 1960s.
Dannhauser was born on May 1, 1929, in Buchau in southwestern Germany.
In early 1939, at the age of nine, Dannhauser came to the United States in order to escape Nazi Germany. An older brother Jacob (1922–1998) and an older sister Rose (1924–2018) also came with him. He became an American citizen in 1944. He completed the rest of his childhood in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was active in the congregation known as The Temple.
Dannhauser earned a bachelor's degree from The New School for Social Research in 1951.
In the mid-1950s, Dannhauser came to the University of Chicago as a graduate student in the Committee on Social Thought. There he studied for his Ph.D. under Leo Strauss, whom he had first heard speak at the New School in New York City. Dannhauser soon became a disciple of Strauss's; when later characterized as a Straussian, he said "I wear the label with pride".
During the 1955–56 year, he was awarded a Fulbright Grant for study in Germany. His efforts as a student in that country included time spent at the University of Berlin and at Heidelberg University.
In the early 1960s, Dannhauser held the position of lecturer in the liberal arts at the University of Chicago. During several summers, he taught classes on poetry and drama at The Clearing Folk School in Door County, Wisconsin. He was also an instructor at the University of Maryland at some point. For 1963–64 he received an appointment as an instructor in government at Claremont Men's College.
By 1963, Dannhauser's doctoral thesis, entitled The Political Philosophy of Nietzsche, was described as having been accepted for publication. The political theorist Hannah Arendt, who had an affiliation with the Committee on Social Thought, had an awareness of Dannhauser's work on his dissertation, and objected to his "tone-deafness" and what she saw as one-dimensional interpretations that ignored elements of irony and ambiguity in Nietzsche's work. In any case, Dannhauser would not finally get his Ph.D. degree until eight years later.