The enduring importance of Leo Strauss

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lampert, Laurence, 1941- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Strauss's recovery of exotericism
  • Exotericism exposed: letters to Jacob Klein
  • Exotericism embraced: "the law of reason in the Kuzari"
  • The Socratic Enlightenment
  • The peculiarly Socratic philosophizing: Xenophon's Gynaikologia
  • Socrates, the real real man: Xenophon's Andrologia
  • Platonic political philosophy: "ministerial poetry"
  • Extending the history of philosophy back to Homer: Seth Benardete's Odyssey
  • The modern Enlightenment
  • Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of orthodoxy: the introduction to philosophy and law
  • Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of Socrates: "what is political philosophy?"
  • Advancing the Enlightenment: Strauss's recovery of Nietzsche's theological-political program
  • Epilogue: Strauss's farewell.