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Record Nr.

UNISA996202469403316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Leo Strauss / / edited by Steven B. Smith [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-139-80164-3

1-139-00250-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Disciplina

181/.06

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Leo Strauss today / Steven B. Smith -- Leo Strauss : the outlines of a life / Steven B. Smith -- Leo Strauss and the "theologico-political predicament" / Leora Batnitzky -- Strauss's recovery of esotericism / Laurence Lampert -- Strauss's return to premodern thought / Catherine Zuckert -- Leo Strauss and the problem of the modern / Stanley Rosen -- The medieval Arabic enlightenment / Joel L. Kraemer -- "To spare the vanquished and crush the arrogant" : Leo Strauss's lecture on "German nihilism" / Susan Shell -- Leo Strauss's qualified embrace of liberal democracy / William A. Galston -- Strauss and social science / Nasser Behnegar -- The complementarity of political philosophy and liberal education in the thought of Leo Strauss / Timothy Fuller -- Straussians / Michael Zuckert.

Sommario/riassunto

Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom



Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.