"1919-08-27Z"^^ . "2012-07-01Z"^^ . "Cropsey, Joseph"@en . "1919Z"^^ . "2012Z"^^ . "American philosopher" . "Joseph Cropsey (New York, August 27, 1919 \u2013 Washington, D.C., July 1, 2012 ) was an American political philosopher and emeritus professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he was also associate director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy. Cropsey was known as a disciple of Leo Strauss, who inspired him to move from his original academic field, economic thought, to a much more theoretical approach to political thought."@en .