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The article examines Leo Strauss’s controversial and enigmatic  Thoughts on Machiavelli  against the backdrop of his biography. In order to understand the  Thoughts on Machiavelli , it is necessary to reconstruct Strauss’s intellectual development since the 1920s. The analysis then focuses on two main questions in Strauss’s writings: is it possible to get a full understanding of “exile” in the context of the Jewish and the Western tradition and what does “Radical Enlightenment” mean exactly? Both concepts - “Exile” and “Radical Enlightenment” - need to be analyzed, according to Strauss, in an “exoteric” and an “esoteric” way. The conclusion of the article offers a traditional answer to Strauss’s challenge: Athens and Jerusalem are not separate, as Strauss suggests.

Two “Dunkle Denker”: Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli