TY - BOOK AU - Adler,Eve AU - Berns,Laurence AU - Biale,David AU - Brague,Rémi AU - Cantor,Paul A. AU - Clay,Diskin AU - Green,Kenneth Hart AU - Iyry,Alfred L. AU - Kennington,Richard H. AU - Lachterman,David R. AU - Prufer,Thomas AU - Rosen,Stanley AU - Udoff,Alan TI - Leo Strauss's Thought: Toward a Critical Engagement SN - 9781555872328 U1 - 320/.01 23//eng/20230721eng PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685852139 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685852139 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685852139/original ER -