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The enduring importance of Leo Strauss /

The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school. Laurence Lampert focuses on exotericism: the use of artful rhetoric to simultaneously communicate a socially respo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lampert, Laurence, 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Strauss's recovery of exotericism
  • Exotericism exposed: letters to Jacob Klein
  • Exotericism embraced: "the law of reason in the kuzari"
  • The Socratic Enlightenment
  • The peculiarly Socratic philosophizing: Xenophon's Gynaikologia
  • Socrates, the real real man: Xenophon's Andrologia
  • Platonic political philosophy: "ministerial poetry"
  • Extending the history of philosophy back to Homer: Seth Benardete's Odyssey
  • The modern Enlightenment
  • Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of orthodoxy: the introduction to philosophy and law
  • Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of Socrates: "what is political philosophy?"
  • Advancing the Enlightenment: Strauss's recovery of Nietzsche's theological-political program
  • Epilogue: Strauss's farewell.