Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought : Reading Outside the Lines /
edited by Jeffrey A. Bernstein and Jade L. Schiff.
- 1 online resource (362 pages).
- SUNY Series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- I. Arts of Reading and Seeing -- 1 Liberalism and the Question: Strauss and Derrida on Politics and Philosophy -- Politics and Philosophy: Concealment or Repression? -- Convergences: The Activity of Philosophy and the Trace of the Author -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Purloined Letters-Lacan avec Strauss -- Perry Mason and Poe: The Effects of Truth on Desire -- The Arts of Writing and Their Vicissitudes -- The Ancient and the Modern -- Progress or Return? -- Notes 3 Seeing through Law: Phenomenological Thought in Soloveitchik and Strauss -- Introductory Remarks -- The Path to Law -- Law and Its Phenomena -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- 4 Claude Lefort and Leo Strauss: On A Philosophical Discourse -- Lefort's Critique of the "Teaching" -- Beginning an Interpretation -- Contradictions in the Discourse -- Dissimulating and Disclosing -- Classical Teaching and Novelty -- The Interpreter and the Discourse of the Work -- Founding and Origin in the Oeuvre -- Concluding Remarks -- The Art of Reading and Writing in Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli Teaching and Thought -- The Art of Reading and Writing -- The Consequences of a Teaching -- Final Remarks -- The Interpreter and the Work -- Notes -- II. History and Politics -- 5 A Civil Encounter: Leo Strauss and Charles Taylor on Religious Pluralism -- Material Histories -- Political Scientist, Philosophers of Politics, Historians of Political Philosophy -- On Democracy-the Educated, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Religion and Tolerance -- The Stability of the Rule and the Flexibility of the Ruled -- Notes 6 Care of the Self and the Invention of Legitimate Government: Foucault and Strauss on Platonic Political Philosophy -- On Reading Foucault with Strauss: Some Preliminary Remarks -- The First Platonic Reversal: Good Politics as Critique of Democracy -- The Second Platonic Reversal: Ethics and Ontology as Governmental Apparatus -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 A Fruitful Disagreement: The Philosophical Encounter between George P. Grant and Leo Strauss -- Kojève's Hegel and Grant's Strauss -- The Protestant Primal -- The Call from That Darkness -- Conclusion -- Notes 8 Strauss and Blumenberg on the Caves of the Moderns -- The Idea of a Second Cave -- The Naturalness of the Cave -- History as a Way Out of the Cave -- Secularization or Self-assertion -- Notes -- 9 Writing the Querelle des Anciens et Modernes: Leo Strauss and Ferdinand Tönnies on Hobbes and the Sociology of Philosophy -- Introduction -- Tönnies on Hobbes, 1879-1981 -- Strauss on Hobbes, 1954 -- Strauss on Modern Natural Right (and Hobbes), 1953 -- Tönnies on the Spirit of Modernity (and Hobbes), 1935 -- Sociology of Philosophy -- Notes -- III. Culture and Critique 10 Leo Strauss and Jürgen Habermas: The Quest for Reason in Twentieth-Century Lifeworlds.