Screen LibraryReorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s
The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Recovering political philosophy
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The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy. "The decade of the 1930s saw Leo Strauss make his fundamental breakthroughs in the meaning of classical political philosophy and the possibility of its recovery. This collection of essays by distinguished scholars, with newly translated works by Strauss, covers the whole complexity of Strauss's inquiry in this period, in its movement from the critical readings of the early moderns and the dialogue with Carl Schmitt, to the engagement with the medievals and Xenophon. This volume sheds invaluable new light on each of these investigations and on how they are interrelated, so that now one can mu |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137374233, 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | 332 p. |
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9781137381149 : 1137381140 : |
| CLC: | B382 |
| Contents: | Introduction-- Martin D. Yaffe and Richard S. Ruderman 1. How Strauss Became Strauss-- Heinrich Meier 2. Spinoza's Critique of Religion: Reading Too Literally and Not Reading Literally Enough-- Steven Frank 3. The Light Shed on the Crucial Development of Strauss's Thought by his Correspondence with Gerhard Kruger-- Thomas L. Pangle 4. Strauss on Hermann Cohen's 'Idealizing' Appropriation of Maimonides as a Platonist-- Martin D. Yaffe 5. Strauss on the Religious and Intellectual Situation of the Present-- Timothy W. Burns 6. Carl Schmitt and Strauss's Return to Pre-Modern Philosophy-- Nasser |