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Title The Cambridge companion to Leo Strauss / edited by Steven B. Smith
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description xiv, 307 pages ; 23 cm
Series Cambridge companions to philosophy
Cambridge companions to philosophy.
Contents 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 Batnitzky -- 4. Strauss's Recovery of Esotericism / Laurence Lampert -- 5. Strauss's Return to Premodern Thought / Catherine Zuckert -- 6. Leo Strauss and the Problem of the Modern / Stanley Rosen -- 7. The Medieval Arabic Enlightenment / Joel L. 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
Summary 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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index
Notes English
Subject Strauss, Leo -- Criticism and interpretation.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Author Smith, Steven B., 1951-
LC no. 2009007870
ISBN 9780521879026 hardback alkaline paper
0521879027 hardback alkaline paper
9780521703994 paperback
0521703999 paperback
ABBREV TI CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LEO STRAUSS
Other Titles Leo Strauss
OTHER TI Cambridge companions online