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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (327 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555872328
  • 9781685852139
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320/.01 23//eng/20230721eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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