Teshuvah: Progress or Return? - Jewish Ideas Daily.
Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker. Part I: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought. 1. Progress or Return? (1952) 2. Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965) Part II: Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers. 3. How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948) 4. Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952) 5.
These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the “postcritical” reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting it rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker.
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers brings together work by scholars from two continents, some of whom knew Strauss, one of whom was his student at the University of Chicago. The first section of essays considers Catholic responses to Strauss's project of recovering Classical natural right as against modern individual rights.
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 Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay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.
Get this from a library! The rebirth of classical political rationalism: an introduction to the thought of Leo Strauss: essays and lectures. (Leo Strauss; Thomas L Pangle) -- 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.
A reissue of the 1975 edition, with four added essays, this collection offers a clear introduction to Strauss' views regarding the nature of political philosophy, its chief contemporary antagonists, its classical forms, and its modern version. It gives the reader Strauss' thoughts on what political philosophy has been and should be again.Selected for their general interest and their.
An introduction to political philosophy: ten essays. (Leo Strauss; Hilail Gildin) Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. --Natural right and the historical approach --An epilogue --Introduction to history of political philosophy --Plato --Progress or return?