TY - BOOK AU - Bernstein,Jeffrey Alan AU - Schiff,Jade TI - Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought: Reading Outside the Lines T2 - SUNY Series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss SN - 9781438483962 AV - B945 .L467 2021 KW - Strauss, Leo. KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Electronic Books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2558385&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -