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Reading between the lines : Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy /

Philosophical texts of the early modern era in which sanctions were imposed on those who entertained deviating views require a particular hermeneutical approach: According to Leo Strauss the interpreter's task is to uncover their 'esoteric' messages. The contributions both address the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schröder, Winfried (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:New studies in the history and historiography of philosophy ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Leo Strauss and the Radical Enlightenment
  • The Irrelevance of (Straussian) Hermeneutics
  • The Virtues and Vices of Leo Strauss, Historian: A reassessment of Straussian Hermeneutics
  • Leo Strauss's Olympian Interpretation: Right, Self-preservation, and Law in The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
  • Art of Writing or Art of Rewriting?: Reading Hobbes's De motu against the Background of Strauss' Interpretation
  • Resurrecting Leo Strauss
  • Spinoza, Strauss, and the Morality of Lying for Safety and Peace
  • Pierre Bayle and the Red Herring
  • Subject index
  • Index of Names.