Leo Strauss's Thought : : Toward a Critical Engagement /

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
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (327 p.)
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Table of 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

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