Intro -- Between Athens and Jerusalem -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Leo Strauss's Early Years: Chronology of Major Events and Writings(1899-1937) -- Introduction -- 1. "In the Grip of theTheological-Political Predicament" -- The Theological-Political Problem and the Jewish Question -- Back to Reality: Emancipation, Assimilation, and Zionism -- "God and Politics" -- Biblical Politics, Biblical Science, and the New Theology -- Quaestio Iuris: The Legacy of Spinoza -- 2. The Shadow of Spinoza -- "A Humanly Incomprehensible Betrayal" -- Before the Tribunal:Biblical Science and the Critique of Religion -- Spinoza's Twofold Strategy -- Maimonides: The Limits of Reason and the Interest in Revelation -- Calvin: "Like Clay in the Potter's Hand" -- Happiness and Ridicule: The Epicurean Connection -- Farewell to Spinoza -- 3. The Second Cave -- The Crisis of the Enlightenment:Jacobi, Mendelssohn, and the Pantheism Controversy -- Atheism, Intellectual Probity, and the Love of Truth -- The Socratic Question and the Fate of Philosophy -- 4. The Order of Human Things -- Medieval Enlightenment: Nomos and Platonic Politics -- Between the Lines: The Art of Writing -- "A Horizon Beyond Liberalism":The Debate with Carl Schmitt -- 5. Socrates and the Leviathan -- Hobbes's Motive -- "The Right Order of Society" -- Fighting the Kingdom of Darkness -- 6. Epilogue -- The Surface and the Core -- The Problem of Socrates -- Machiavelli's Oblivion -- From Jerusalem to Athens (and Back) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I |