Hilail Gildin (November 28, 1928 – March 3, 2015) was an American scholar and editor. He served as professor of philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York. He was also the editor-in-chief of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.
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.
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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