Thinking in Public : : Strauss, Levinas, Arendt / / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft.

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Leo Strauss and the Problem of “The Intellectual”
  • Chapter 1. Moderns and Medievals
  • Chapter 2. The Exoteric Writing Thesis
  • Chapter 3. Natural Right and Tyranny
  • Part II. The Dog at the End of the Verse: Emmanuel Levinas Between Ethics and Engagement
  • Chapter 4. Growth of a Moralist
  • Chapter 5. Resisting Engagement
  • Chapter 6. Witnessing
  • Part III. Against Speechless Wonder: Hannah Arendt on Philosophers and Intellectuals
  • Chapter 7. Arendt’s Weimar Origins
  • Chapter 8. From the Camps to Galileo
  • Chapter 9. One More Strange Island
  • Part IV. A Missed Conversation
  • Chapter 10. Toward a Jewish Socrates?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments