The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press, 7/9/2009
EAN 9780521879026, ISBN10: 0521879027
Hardcover, 326 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
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.
1. Introduction
Leo Strauss today Steven B. Smith
2. Leo Strauss
the outlines of a life Steven B. Smith
3. Leo Strauss and the theologico-political predicament Leora Batnitsky
4. Strauss's recovery of esotericism Laurence Lampert
5. Strauss's return to pre-modern thought Catherine Zuckert
6. Leo Strauss and the problem of the modern Stanley Rosen
7. The medieval Arabic enlightenment Joel Kraemer
8. 'To spare the vanquished and crush the arrogant'
Leo Strauss's lecture on 'German nihilism' Susan Shell
9. Leo Strauss's qualified embrace of liberal democracy William A. Galston
10. Strauss and social science Nasser Behnegar
11. The complementarity of political philosophy and liberal education in the thought of Leo Strauss Timothy Fuller
12. Straussians Michael Zuckert.