Leo Strauss's Thought : Toward a Critical Engagement / ed. by Alan Udoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adler, Eve, Contributor.

Berns, Laurence, Contributor.

Biale, David, Contributor.

Brague, Rémi, Contributor.

Cantor, Paul A., Contributor.

Clay, Diskin, Contributor.

Udoff, Alan, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The most comprehensive picture available of the topics central to Leo Strauss's life and work: his early development; his life-long work on Maimonides; his ideas on the issues of Athens vs. Jerusalem, the Ancients vs. the Moderns, and the discontinuity or linkage between politics and theology; and fianlly, his literary hermeneutics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

On Leo Strauss: An Introductory Account

THE APPRENTICE YEARS

1 Leo Strauss: The Philosopher as Weimar Jew

2 "In the Grip of the Theological- Political Predicament": The Turn to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss

THE PLACE OF MAIMONIDES

3 Leo Strauss on Maimonides

4 Leo Strauss and Maimonides

ATHENS AND JERUSALEM

5 Juxtapositions: Aristotle, Aquinas, Strauss

6 Laying Down the Law: The Theological-Political Matrix of Spinoza's Physics

ANCIENTS AND MODERNS

7 Leo Strauss and the Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns

8 The Prescientific World and Historicism: Some Reflections on Strauss, Heidegger, and Husserl

THE THEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL PROBLEM

9 Leo Strauss's Philosophie und Gesetz

10 Strauss's Natural Right and History

APPREHENSIVE READING

11 On a Forgotten Kind of Reading

12 Leo Strauss and Contemporary Hermeneutics

The Contributors

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

1-68585-213-0