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- Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932)
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in the Jewish Writings of Leo Strauss
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Presents the early published writings of the distinguished political philosopher Leo Strauss, available here for the first time in English.
“Zank places at the reader’s disposal the young Strauss’s passionate advocacy of political Zionism and his early confrontations with Spinoza, consideration of whom helped lead Strauss to formulate his teaching on ‘the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns.’” — National Review 'This translation of eighteen virtually unknown early publications provides access for the first time to the origins of Leo Strauss’s thought in the intellectual life of the German Jewish ‘renaissance’ in the 1920s. Themes range from the Enlightenment critique of the religion of Spinoza and the anti-critique of Jacobi, to the political Zionism of Herzl and the cultural Zionism of Buber and Ahad Ha’am. The essays and reviews reprinted in this volume document a youth caught in the “theological-political” conflict between the irretrievability of premodern religion and the disenchantedness of “honest” atheism, an impossible alternative that precipitated Strauss to seek out the possibility of a return to the level of natural ignorance presupposed in Socratic political philosophy.
Table of Contents
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- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Abbreviations
- p. xix
- Contents
- Part I: Introduction
- pp. 1-50
- Part II: Leo Strauss: Early Publications (1921-32)
- 1. The Dissertation (1921)
- pp. 53-62
- 2. Zionist Writings (1923-25)
- pp. 63-138
- 4. Reorientation (1928-32)
- pp. 201-224
- Back Matter
- Index of Sources
- pp. 225-226
- General Index
- pp. 227-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791488829
MARC Record
OCLC
794701317
Pages
258
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No