The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss
The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss
by Leo Strauss edited by Thomas L. Pangle
University of Chicago Press, 1989 Cloth: 978-0-226-77714-6 | Paper: 978-0-226-77715-3 Library of Congress Classification JA81.S756 1989 Dewey Decimal Classification 320.09
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss's mature work.
"[These essays] display the incomparable insight and remarkable range of knowledge that set Strauss's works apart from any other twentieth-century philosopher's."—Charles R. Kesler, National Review
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the author of many books, among them The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Natural Right and History, and Spinoza's Critique of Religion, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Introduction
Part One
The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Rationalism
1. Social Science and Humanism
2. "Relativism"
3. An Introduction to Heideggerian Existentialism
Part Two
Classical Political Rationalism
4. On Classical Political Philosophy
5. Exoteric Teaching
6. Thucydides: The Meaning of Political History
7. The Problem of Socrates: Five Lectures
Part Three
The Dialogue between Reason and Revelation
8. On the Euthyphron
9. How to Begin to Study Medieval Philosophy
10. Progress of Return? Notes Bibliography Index
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