LEADER 03898nam 22005895 450 001 9910154285103321 005 20230124201039.0 010 $a9780226275994 010 $a022627599X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226275994 035 $a(CKB)4340000000022388 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4761017 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001621513 035 $a(DE-B1597)524486 035 $a(OCoLC)965543745 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226275994 035 $a(Perlego)1852618 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000022388 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitical Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion /$fHeinrich Meier 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (211 pages) 300 $aTranslation of: Politische Philosophie und die Herausforderung der Offenbarungsreligion. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9780226275857 311 08$a022627585X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tNote on Translation -- $tNote on Citations -- $tI. Why Political Philosophy? -- $tII. The Renewal of Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion: On the Intention of Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli -- $tIII. The Right of Politics and the Knowledge of the Philosopher: On the Intention of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Du contrat social -- $tAppendix: Leo Strauss, Thoughts on Machiavelli: The Headings -- $tIndex of Names 330 $aHeinrich Meier's guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to political philosophy. In the first of three chapters, Meier determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic whole. The following two chapters develop the concept through the interpretation of two masterpieces of political philosophy that have occupied Meier's attention for more than thirty years: Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract. Meier provides a detailed investigation of Thoughts on Machiavelli, with an appendix containing Strauss's original manuscript headings for each of his paragraphs. Linking the problem of Socrates (the origin of political philosophy) with the problem of Machiavelli (the beginning of modern political philosophy), while placing between them the political and theological claims opposed to philosophy, Strauss's most complex and controversial book proves to be, as Meier shows, the most astonishing treatise on the challenge of revealed religion. The final chapter, which offers a new interpretation of the Social Contract, demonstrates that Rousseau's most famous work can be adequately understood only as a coherent political-philosophic response to theocracy in all its forms. 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy and religion 606 $aPolitical theology 606 $aReligion and politics 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy and religion. 615 0$aPolitical theology. 615 0$aReligion and politics. 676 $a320.01 700 $aMeier$b Heinrich, $0269390 701 $aBerman$b Robert$048362 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154285103321 996 $aPolitical Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion$92060361 997 $aUNINA