Leo Strauss
The Early Writings (1921-1932)
Publication Year: 2002
Published by: State University of New York Press
Front Matter
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
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pp. vii-viii
Preface
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pp. ix-xv
The writings included in this volume are unfamiliar, if not completely unknown, even to the growing number of American students of the work of Leo Strauss, nor is the relation of these early writings to Strauss's later work immediately evident or easily understood. ...
Acknowledgments
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pp. xvii-xviii
Working on translating, annotating, and introducing the early writings of Leo Strauss, I incurred a debt of gratitude to a number of individuals and institutions whom it is my pleasure to acknowledge. Kenneth Hart Green invited me to contribute this volume to the SUNY Series ...
Abbreviations
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pp. xix-
Contents
Part I: Introduction
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pp. 1-50
When Leo Strauss died in 1973, he did not leave an autobiography, and a scholarly biography on this major political philosopher has as yet to be written.1 But Strauss left us with a number of autobiographic fragments, and what else we need to know in order to approach the writings assembled in this volume ...
Part II: Leo Strauss: Early Publications (1921-32)
1. The Dissertation (1921)
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pp. 53-62
The full text of Strauss's 1921 dissertation, "Das Erkenntnisproblem in der philosophischen Lehre Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis," was published by Heinrich and Wiebke Meier in Philosopllie und Gesetz: Fruhe Schrijten (= GS, 2:237- 92). The following is a translation of the extract (Auszug) from the dissertation ...
2. Zionist Writings (1923-25)
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pp. 63-138
The publications from this period represent Leo Strauss as a political Zionist. They coincide with one of the most optimistic phases in the history of Zionism in general, and of the German Zionist movement in particular. (On the following cf. Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism (New York: Schock en Books, 1972], 445, 450-55.) ...
3. Historical-Philological Writings on Spinoza (1924-26)
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pp. 139-200
In the first essay included in this section, "Cohen's Analysis of Spinoza's Bible Science," Strauss defends Spinoza's Theological-Politual Treatise against the charges brought against it by Hermann Cohen. Cohen's "Spinoza �ber Staat und Religion, Judentum und Christentum," ...
4. Reorientation (1928-32)
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pp. 201-224
The late twenties and early thirties were for Strauss a time of reorientation. The rethinking of his positions is evident in his letters and in publications of the mid- 1930s, especially in the introduction to Philosophy and Law (1935). In the few writings he published at the time, however, he only hints at some ...
Back Matter
Index of Sources
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pp. 225-226
General Index
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pp. 227-238
Back Cover
E-ISBN-13: 9780791488829
E-ISBN-10: 0791488829
Print-ISBN-13: 9780791453292
Print-ISBN-10: 0791453294
Page Count: 258
Publication Year: 2002
Series Title: SUNY series in the Jewish Writings of Leo Strauss
Series Editor Byline: Kenneth Hart Green
