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This article examines how Leo Strauss's redevelops the terms of the dispute between the ancients & the moderns, siding with the former against the latter, whom he accuses of having ruined the philosophical tradition & thereby precluding any possibility of an authentically philosophical life. Though it may easily be taken for the work of an erudite commentator, Strauss's oeuvre is actually animated by an authentic intellectual undertaking, at once theoretical & practical, in which a critique of modernity & a diagnosis of modern nihilism play a decisive part. So it may be understood as a form of "philosophical conservatism," a designation which this article seeks to characterize & which renders at once possible & tenuous his supposed affiliation to current neo-conservative ideological positions in the United States. Adapted from the source document.