Leo Strauss ; translated and edited by Michael Zank.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Albany, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
State University of New York Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xix, 238 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
SUNY series in the Jewish writings of Strauss
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Leo Strauss: Early Publications (1921-32): I. The Dissertation (1921) -- II. Zionist Writings (1923-25) -- III. Historical-Philological Writings on Spinoza (1924-26) -- IV. Reorientation (1928-32).
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This translation of eighteen virtually unknown early publications provides access for the first time to the origins of Leo Strauss's thought in the intellectual life of the German Jewish 'renaissance' in the 1920s. Themes range from the Enlightenment critique of the religion of Spinoza and the anti-critique of Jacobi, to the political Zionism of Herzl and the cultural Zionism of Buber and Ahad Ha'am. The essays and reviews reprinted in this volume document a youth caught in the theological-political conflict between the irretrievability of premodern religion and the disenchantedness of honest atheism, an impossible alternative that precipitated Strauss to seek out the possibility of a return to the level of natural ignorance presupposed in Socratic political philosophy.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Works.
Date of Publication
2002
Form Subheading
Selections.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible., Old Testament-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.