Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321) and index
Strauss's recovery of exotericism -- Exotericism exposed: letters to Jacob Klein -- Exotericism embraced: "the law of reason in the Kuzari" -- The Socratic Enlightenment -- The peculiarly Socratic philosophizing: Xenophon's Gynaikologia -- Socrates, the real real man: Xenophon's Andrologia -- Platonic political philosophy: "ministerial poetry" -- Extending the history of philosophy back to Homer: Seth Benardete's Odyssey -- The modern Enlightenment -- Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of orthodoxy: the introduction to philosophy and law -- Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of Socrates: "what is political philosophy?" -- Advancing the Enlightenment: Strauss's recovery of Nietzsche's theological-political program -- Epilogue: Strauss's farewell