Bernstein / Schiff Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought

Reading Strauss Outside the Lines
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8396-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 359 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss

Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernstein, Jeffrey A.

Schiff, Jade Larissa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Jeffrey A. Bernstein

Part I: Arts of Reading and Seeing

1. Liberalism and the Question: Strauss and Derrida on Politics and Philosophy
Jade Larissa Schiff

2. Purloined Letters—Lacan avec Strauss
Matthew J. Sharpe

3. Seeing through Law: Phenomenological Thought in Soloveitchik and Strauss
Jeffrey A. Bernstein

4. Claude Lefort and Leo Strauss: On A Philosophical Discourse
Isabel Rollandi

Part II: History And Politics

5. A Civil Encounter: Leo Strauss and Charles Taylor on Religious Pluralism
Jessica L. Radin

6. Care of the Self and the Invention of Legitimate Government: Foucault and Strauss on Platonic Political Philosophy
Miguel Vatter

7. A Fruitful Disagreement: The Philosophical Encounter between George P. Grant and Leo Strauss
Waller R. Newell

8. Strauss and Blumenberg on the Caves of the Moderns
Danilo Manca

9. Writing the Querelle des Anciens et Modernes: Leo Strauss and Ferdinand Tönnies on Hobbes and the Sociology of Philosophy
Peter Gostmann

Part III: Culture and Critique

10. Leo Strauss and Jürgen Habermas: The Quest for Reason in Twentieth-Century Lifeworlds
Rodrigo Chacón

11. Heidegger's Challenge to the Renaissance of Socratic Political Rationalism
Alexander S. Duff

12. The Wheel of History: Nihilism as Moral Protest and Destruction of the Present in Leo Strauss and Albert Camus
Ingrid L. Anderson

13. Who's Laughing? Leo Strauss on Comedy and Mockery
Menachem Feuer

14. Leo Strauss and Walter Benjamin: Thinking "In a Moment of Danger"
Philipp von Wussow

About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey A. Bernstein is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross and the author of Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History, also published by SUNY Press. Jade Larissa Schiff is Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College and the author of Burdens of Political Responsibility: Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness.