Hilail Gildin (November 28, 1928 – March 3, 2015) was an American scholar and editor.
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. He was also the editor-in-chief of '' Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy''.Interpretation editorial board
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in 1962 by the

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, where he was a student of Leo Strauss, with whom Gildin collaborated closely in the establishment of the journal '' Interpretation''.

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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