Leo Strauss's Thought : : Toward a Critical Engagement / / ed. by Alan Udoff.
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;...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Other title: | 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 |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781685852139 9783110784268 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781685852139 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Alan Udoff. |