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Leo Strauss and the crisis of rationalism : another reason, another enlightenment / Corine Pelluchon ; translated by Robert Howse.
Van Pelt Library B945.S84 P4513 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelluchon, Corine.
- Series:
- SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss
- Standardized Title:
- Leo Strauss. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Strauss, Leo.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss's thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Crisis of Rationalism 1
- Two Historical Shocks and a Threat 4
- The Crisis of Political Philosophy 10
- Modern Rationalism as the Destruction of Reason 15
- The Archeology and Overcoming of Nihilism 19
- Part I The Dissection of the Modern Religious Consciousness
- Introduction: The Perplexity of the Modern Religious Consciousness 25
- Chapter 1 Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment 31
- The Jacobi Question 31
- The Pantheism Debate 34
- The Critique of Natural Religion 34
- There Is No Such Thing as Moderate Enlightenment 38
- The Rejection of the Kantian Solution 41
- The Controversy over the French Revolution 47
- The Crisis of the Tradition 57
- The Science of Judaism and the Dialectic of Assimilation 57
- The Discontinuity of the Ancients and Moderns 60
- The Aporias of Zionism 63
- Chapter 2 Critique of Religion and Biblical Criticism 69
- The Critique of Religion and Revelation in Hobbes 70
- Epicureanism 70
- The Interpretation of the Bible 73
- Socinianism and the Radical Enlightenment 77
- The Need to Reconsider the Radical Enlightenment 80
- Spinoza's Particular Contribution to the Critique of Religion 83
- Persecution and the Art of Writing 84
- The Religion of the Ignorant and Weak 87
- Biblical Criticism (Bibelswissenschaft) 90
- The Social Function of Religion 94
- The Universal Religion and the "Christianity" of Spinoza 94
- The Ambiguity of Spinoza 96
- The Limits of Secular Morality 98
- The Enlightenment of Spinoza 101
- The Legacy of the Critique of Religion 103
- The Critique of Revelation Has Not Destroyed the Interest in Revelation 103
- The Challenge of Philosophy 106
- The Debt of the New Orthodoxy to the Enlightenment and Religious Liberalism 107
- Chapter 3 The Return to the Tradition 111
- Rationalism and Mysticism 112
- Allegory and Symbol 112
- Reason and Experience 115
- The Human Experience of the Absolute 117
- Religion and Philosophy 117
- Ethics and Spirituality 120
- Redemption and Politics 123
- The Jewish Enlightenment of Maimonides 128
- Cohen and Strauss 128
- From Morality to Politics 130
- The Rational Critique of Reason 133
- Part II The Dissections of Modern Political Consciousness
- Introduction: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought 139
- Chapter 1 The First Wave of Modernity 143
- Machiavelli, the Originator of the Modern Enlightenment 143
- The End of the Renaissance Humanist Ideal 143
- Power, the Mastery of Men, and the Mastery of Nature 147
- Philosophy, Propaganda, and Barbarism 148
- Hobbes or the Founding of the Modern State 151
- Political Science 151
- Vanity and Fear 153
- Individualism, Liberalism, and Absolutism 156
- From War to Commerce 159
- The Crisis of Liberalism: The Dialogue between Strauss and Schmitt 160
- From the Rechtsstaat to the Total State in the Era of Technology 160
- War and the Affirmation of the Political 164
- Decisionism and Political Philosophy 169
- Resoluteness in Heidegger 172
- Chapter 2 The Second and Third Waves of Modernity 179
- The Rousseauian Moment 179
- The Paradoxes of Rousseau 179
- Society and the Rich 181
- Revolution, History, and the General Will 184
- Modern Tyranny, Marxism, and Capitalism 188
- The Dialogue between Strauss and Kojeve 188
- Philosophy and Politics 193
- Locke's Liberalism 196
- The Contemporary Form of Tyranny 201
- Nihilism according to Nietzsche and after Nietzsche 204
- The Repetition of Antiquity at the Peak of Modernity 205
- The Law as Denaturing and the Religious Atheism of Nietzsche 207
- The Radicalism of the Straussian Critique of Christianity 208
- Chapter 3 Political Philosophy as First Philosophy 211
- The Return to Socrates 211
- Political Philosophy as the Fulfillment of Phenomenology 212
- The Conflict between Poetry and Philosophy 214
- Wisdom and Moderation 217
- The Medieval Enlightenment 220
- The Platonism of Farabi and Maimonides 220
- The Enlightenment of Maimonides 223
- The Natural Conditions of Prophecy 226
- Esoteric Teaching and the Enlightenment 229
- The Task for Thinking and the Rebirth of Philosophy 232
- Phenomenology and the Meaning of the Law 232
- The Conception of Truth in Maimonides 234
- What Is Called Thinking? 237
- Surpassing Heidegger on His Own Ground 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1438449674
- 9781438449678
- OCLC:
- 841039473
- Publisher Number:
- 99959211532
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