LEADER 04520nam 22007334a 450 001 9910780993703321 005 20230124183417.0 010 $a1-282-53786-5 010 $a9786612537868 010 $a0-226-76390-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226763903 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006489 035 $a(EBL)496638 035 $a(OCoLC)593344863 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342147 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278388 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342147 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10284360 035 $a(PQKB)10159443 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000592878 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12290134 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000592878 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10736755 035 $a(PQKB)11549541 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122484 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC496638 035 $a(DE-B1597)523948 035 $a(OCoLC)1135611153 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226763903 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL496638 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10370340 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253786 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006489 100 $a20051020d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading Leo Strauss$b[electronic resource] $epolitics, philosophy, Judaism /$fSteven B. Smith 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-76389-7 311 $a0-226-76402-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-237) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: why Strauss, why now? -- Jerusalem -- How Jewish was Leo Strauss? -- Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss : notes toward a German-Jewish dialogue -- Strauss's Spinoza -- Athens -- Leo Strauss's platonic liberalism -- Destruktion or recovery? on Strauss's critique of Heidegger -- Tyranny ancient and modern -- Strauss's America -- WWLSD; or, what would Leo Strauss do? 330 $aInterest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy-perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in Reading Leo Strauss, Smith shows that Strauss's defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and extreme Right. Smith asserts that this philosophical skepticism defined Strauss's thought. It was as a skeptic, Smith argues, that Strauss considered the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between reason and revelation-a conflict Strauss dubbed the "theologico-political problem." Calling this problem "the theme of my investigations," Strauss asked the same fundamental question throughout his life: what is the relation of the political order to revelation in general and Judaism in particular? Smith organizes his book with this question, first addressing Strauss's views on religion and then examining his thought on philosophical and political issues. In his investigation of these philosophical and political issues, Smith assesses Strauss's attempt to direct the teaching of political science away from the examination of mass behavior and interest group politics and toward the study of the philosophical principles on which politics are based. With his provocative, lucid essays, Smith goes a long way toward establishing a distinctive form of Straussian liberalism. 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern$y20th century 606 $aJewish philosophy 610 $aneoconservatism, liberalism, democracy, politics, political science, philosophy, judaism, radicalism, extremism, skepticism, moderation, reason, revelation, jerusalem, athens, religion, interest group, mass behavior, gershom scholem, spinoza, plato, nonfiction, zionism, natural right and history, on tyranny, city man, heidegger, freedom, power, rationality, choice, will, agency. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern 615 0$aJewish philosophy. 676 $a320.01 700 $aSmith$b Steven B.$f1951-$01165431 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780993703321 996 $aReading Leo Strauss$93737734 997 $aUNINA