Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s
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Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s

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Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s

About this book

The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy.

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Yes, you can access Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s by M. Yaffe, R. Ruderman, M. Yaffe,R. Ruderman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Política y relaciones internacionales & Filosofía política. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Editors’ Introduction
  4. 1.   How Strauss Became Strauss
  5. 2.   Spinoza’s Critique of Religion: Reading the Low in the Light of the High
  6. 3.   The Light Shed on the Crucial Development of Strauss’s Thought by his Correspondence with Gerhard Krüger
  7. 4.   Strauss on Hermann Cohen’s “Idealizing” Appropriation of Maimonides as a Platonist
  8. 5.   Strauss on the Religious and Intellectual Situation of the Present
  9. 6.   Carl Schmitt and Strauss’s Return to Premodern Philosophy
  10. 7.   Leo Strauss on the Origins of Hobbes’s Natural Science and Its Relation to the Challenge of Divine Revelation
  11. 8.   Leo Strauss on Farabi, Maimonides, et al. in the 1930s
  12. 9.   The Problem of the Enlightenment: Strauss, Jacobi, and the Pantheism Controversy
  13. 10.   “Through the Keyhole”: Leo Strauss’s Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lacedaemonians
  14. 11.   Strauss and Schleiermacher on How to Read Plato: An Introduction to “Exoteric Teaching”
  15. Appendices: Seven Writings by Leo Strauss
  16. A   Leo Strauss: “Conspectivism” (1929)
  17. B   Leo Strauss: “Religious Situation of the Present” (1930)
  18. C   Leo Strauss: “The Intellectual Situation of the Present” (1932)
  19. D   Leo Strauss: “A Lost Writing of Farâbî’s” (1936)
  20. E   Leo Strauss: “On Abravanel’s Critique of Monarchy” (1937)
  21. F   Leo Strauss: Exoteric Teaching (1939)
  22. G   Leo Strauss: Lecture Notes for “Persecution and the Art of Writing” (1939)
  23. Notes on Contributors
  24. Index