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Philosophy, history, and tyranny : reexamining the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve /
The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny. On Tyranny remains a perennial favorite, possessing a timelessness that few philosophical or scholarly debates have ever achieved. On one hand, On Tyranny is the firs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Brief Biographies of Strauss and Kojève; Overview of the Present Volume; 1. The Place of the Strauss-Kojève Debate in the Work of Leo Strauss; Kojève, Hegel, and Heidegger; Modernity, Historical Philosophy, and Historicism; Recovery of the "Natural World"; The Grounding of the Philosophic or Scientific Life; Strauss's On Tyranny; Kojève's "Tyranny and Wisdom"; Strauss's "Restatement"; The Subsequent Correspondence; 2. The Philosophic Background of Alexandre Kojève's "Tyranny and Wisdom"; The Origin of Self-Consciousness and the Desire for Recognition.
- The Master-Slave Dialectic and the End of HistoryThe End of Philosophy; The Wise Man; The Conditions of Absolute Wisdom; Tyranny and Wisdom; 3. The Place of the Bible in the Strauss-Kojève Debate; Kojève, Revelation, and History; Strauss, the Bible, and Modernity; Strauss, the Bible, and "Pseudo-Rationalism"; 4. Leo Strauss's Decisive Reply to Alexandre Kojève; The Defense of Utopias; The Sufficiency of the Classical Framework; The Relation between Wisdom and Rule; The Political Action of the Philosophers; The Best Social Order; Concluding Remarks.
- 5. Who Won the Strauss-Kojève Debate? The Case for Alexandre Kojève in His Dispute with Leo StraussThe Character of the Debate and the Common Ground; Subjective Certainty and Recognition, Philosophy and the Quest for Truth; The Possibility and Desirability of the Universal and Homogeneous State; Conclusion; 6. The Epistolary Exchange between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève; The Genesis of the French Edition of On Tyranny; The Issue of Being; The Letters and the Idea of Philosophy.
- 7. Kojève's Hegel, Hegel's Hegel, and Strauss's Hegel: A Middle Range Approach to the Debate about Tyranny and TotalitarianismTyranny, Wisdom, and the Missing Middle Range in On Tyranny; Strauss and the Middle Range in Other Works; Strauss on Ancient versus Modern Wisdom; Kojève's Hegel and Hegel's Hegel; Strauss's Hegel; On Tyranny and Totalitarianism; 8. History, Tyranny, and the Presuppositions of Philosophy: Strauss, Kojève, and Heidegger in Dialogue; The Idea of Philosophy; Being and History; 9. The Notion of an End of History: Philosophic Origins and Recent Applications; Introduction.
- Philosophical Background of the End of History: Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, MarxKojève's Treatment of the End of History; The End of History Toward the End of the Twentieth Century: Francis Fukuyama; Conclusion: Strauss's Abiding Interest in Kojève's Historical Philosophy; Appendix A: Critical Edition of Alexandre Kojève, "Tyrannie et sagesse"; Appendix B: "Tyranny and Wisdom"; Editorial Notes; Contributors; Index.