Leo Strauss and contemporary thought : reading Strauss outside the lines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Jeffrey Alan.

Contributor:

Schiff, Jade.

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)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

Broadens the horizons of Strauss's thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.

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?

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

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VI

11 Heidegger's Challenge to the Renaissance of Socratic Political Rationalism

Early Heidegger: from Theory to Existenz

Articulation in Being and Time

What Is Nihilism?

Strauss on the Comic Dimension of Philosophic Speech and Inquiry

12 The Wheel of History: Nihilism as Moral Protest and Destruction of the Present in Leo Strauss and Albert Camus

13 Who's Laughing? Leo Strauss on Comedy and Mockery

Two Versions of Socrates: Strauss on Aristophanes and Humor

Reading Aristophanes-Reading Socrates

Modernity and Mockery: Strauss on the Enlightenment, Spinoza, and Modern Jewish Philosophy

Nietzsche and the Problem of Jewish Philosophy's "New Thinking"

The Hidden Distinction: On Nietzsche and Laughter.

Conclusion: Maimonides, Extreme Humility, and Comical Stupidity

14 Leo Strauss and Walter Benjamin: Thinking "In a Moment of Danger"

Benjamin and Strauss: Contours of a Nondialogue

Aesthetics and Politics or Philosophy and Law?

Benjamin and Strauss on Theology, Politics, and Culture

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781438483962

1438483961

OCLC:

1250089993