Toward "Natural Right and History" : Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946 / Leo Strauss; Svetozar Minkov, J. A. Colen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strauss, Leo, author.

Contributor:

Colen, José, editor.

Minkov, Svetozar, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strauss, Leo.

Natural law.

Political science.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss's most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark work. In them, he explores natural right and the relationship between modern philosophers and the thought of the ancient Greek philosophers, as well as the relation of political philosophy to contemporary political science and to major political and historical events, especially the Holocaust and World War II. Previously unpublished in book form, Strauss's lectures are presented here in a thematic order that mirrors Natural Right and History and with interpretive essays by J. A. Colen, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Daniel Tanguay, Nathan Tarcov, and Michael Zuckert that establish their relation to the work. Rounding out the book are copious annotations and notes to facilitate further study.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Zuckert, Michael

Abbreviations

Editors' Note

Introduction / Colen, J. A. / Minkov, Svetozar

1. Introduction to Political Philosophy

Leo Strauss on the Relation of Theory to Practice / Tarcov, Nathan

What Can We Learn from Political Theory? (1942) / Strauss, Leo

2. The Historical Approach

Breaking Free from the Spell of Historicism / Tanguay, Daniel

Historicism (1941) / Strauss, Leo

3. Facts and Values

Is There a Natural Framework for the Social Sciences? / Colen, J. A.

The Frame of Reference in the Social Sciences (1945) / Strauss, Leo

4. Recovering the Classics

A Presentation of Exotericism in Classical Political Philosophy / Lynch, Christopher

On the Study of Classical Political Philosophy (1938) / Strauss, Leo

5. Modern Natural Right

Hobbes as the Founder of Modern Political Philosophy / Minkov, Svetozar

The Origin of Modern Political Thought (1937) / Strauss, Leo

6. The Crisis of Natural Right

Recovering Natural Right / Colen, J. A.

Natural Right (1946) / Strauss, Leo

An Afterword

Toward Strauss's Intention and Teaching in Natural Right and History / Colen, J. A.

Appendix

Leo Strauss: Courses at the New School for Social Research / Minkov, Svetozar

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226512242

022651224X

OCLC:

1030304596