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Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought : Reading Outside the Lines / edited by Jeffrey A. Bernstein and Jade L. Schiff.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss
- SUNY Series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strauss, Leo.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes
- I. Arts of Reading and Seeing
- 1 Liberalism and the Question: Strauss and Derrida on Politics and Philosophy
- Politics and Philosophy: Concealment or Repression?
- Convergences: The Activity of Philosophy and the Trace of the Author
- Conclusion
- 2 Purloined Letters-Lacan avec Strauss
- Perry Mason and Poe: The Effects of Truth on Desire
- The Arts of Writing and Their Vicissitudes
- The Ancient and the Modern
- Progress or Return?
- Notes
- 3 Seeing through Law: Phenomenological Thought in Soloveitchik and Strauss
- Introductory Remarks
- The Path to Law
- Law and Its Phenomena
- Concluding Remarks
- 4 Claude Lefort and Leo Strauss: On A Philosophical Discourse
- Lefort's Critique of the "Teaching"
- Beginning an Interpretation
- Contradictions in the Discourse
- Dissimulating and Disclosing
- Classical Teaching and Novelty
- The Interpreter and the Discourse of the Work
- Founding and Origin in the Oeuvre
- The Art of Reading and Writing in Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli
- Teaching and Thought
- The Art of Reading and Writing
- The Consequences of a Teaching
- Final Remarks
- The Interpreter and the Work
- II. History and Politics
- 5 A Civil Encounter: Leo Strauss and Charles Taylor on Religious Pluralism
- Material Histories
- Political Scientist, Philosophers of Politics, Historians of Political Philosophy
- On Democracy-the Educated, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Religion and Tolerance
- The Stability of the Rule and the Flexibility of the Ruled
- 6 Care of the Self and the Invention of Legitimate Government: Foucault and Strauss on Platonic Political Philosophy
- On Reading Foucault with Strauss: Some Preliminary Remarks
- The First Platonic Reversal: Good Politics as Critique of Democracy
- The Second Platonic Reversal: Ethics and Ontology as Governmental Apparatus
- 7 A Fruitful Disagreement: The Philosophical Encounter between George P. Grant and Leo Strauss
- Kojève's Hegel and Grant's Strauss
- The Protestant Primal
- The Call from That Darkness
- 8 Strauss and Blumenberg on the Caves of the Moderns
- The Idea of a Second Cave
- The Naturalness of the Cave
- History as a Way Out of the Cave
- Secularization or Self-assertion
- 9 Writing the Querelle des Anciens et Modernes: Leo Strauss and Ferdinand Tönnies on Hobbes and the Sociology of Philosophy
- Tönnies on Hobbes, 1879-1981
- Strauss on Hobbes, 1954
- Strauss on Modern Natural Right (and Hobbes), 1953
- Tönnies on the Spirit of Modernity (and Hobbes), 1935
- Sociology of Philosophy
- III. Culture and Critique
- 10 Leo Strauss and Jürgen Habermas: The Quest for Reason in Twentieth-Century Lifeworlds.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bernstein, Jeffrey A. Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought
- ISBN:
- 1438483961
- 9781438483962
- Publisher Number:
- 40030560927
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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