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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Eve,; Berns, Laurence,; Biale, David,; Brague, Rémi,; Cantor, Paul A.,; Clay, Diskin,
• HerausgeberIn: Udoff, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.