The enduring importance of Leo Strauss /
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| Author / Creator: | Lampert, Laurence, 1941- author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013. |
| Description: | ix, 345 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9322119 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1. Strauss's Recovery of Exotericism
- 1. Exotericism Exposed: Letters to Jacob Klein
- 2. Exotericism Embraced: "The Law of Reason in the Kuzari"
- Part 2. The Socratic Enlightenment
- 3. The Peculiarly Socratic Philosophizing: Xenophon's Gynaikologia
- 4. Socrates, the Real Real Man: Xenophon's Andrologia
- 5. Platonic Political Philosophy: "Ministerial Poetry"
- 6. Extending the History of Philosophy Back to Homer: Seth Benardete's Odyssey
- Part 3. The Modern Enlightenment
- 7. Attacking the Enlightenment on Behalf of Orthodoxy: The Introduction to Philosophy and Law
- 8. Attacking the Enlightenment on Behalf of Socrates: "What Is Political Philosophy?"
- 9. Advancing the Enlightenment: Strauss's Recovery of Nietzsche's Theological-Political Program
- Epilogue: Strauss's Farewell
- Works Cited
- Index
