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Leo Strauss et le problème de l'interprétation
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ISBN: 2240031255 9782240031259 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris: Scérén/CNDP,

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Contrairement à une idée préconçue, selon laquelle l’interprétation est une question de subjectivité, l’art d’interpréter obéit à une approche rationnelle : il suit des règles déterminées et renvoie à des critères définis. La pensée de Leo Strauss (1899-1973) fait ici figure de modèle. Elle propose un discours de la méthode mis en œuvre dans la lecture de grands textes philosophiques de la tradition antique et moderne. Elle nous permet de mieux répondre à deux questions centrales : à quelles conditions une interprétation peut-elle être tenue pour rigoureuse et légitime ? Quelles sont, mesurées à l’aune de cette exigence rationnelle, les alternatives fondamentales entre les grandes orientations de l’art d’interpréter et quels en sont les enjeux ? Le problème de l’interprétation se montre ici dans toutes ses dimensions : celle de la réflexion sur l’existence et la nature de la vérité, celle du rôle politique de son mode de présentation et celle de la sagesse morale qui les accompagne. Cet ouvrage tente d’éclairer ce problème sous ces divers aspects par l’explicitation du modèle straussien et sa mise en dialogue avec d’autres pensées de l’art d’interpréter.


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Modernity and what has been lost : considerations on the legacy of Leo Strauss
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ISBN: 8323384924 8323329656 Year: 2010 Publisher: Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press,

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The title of this volume appears to suggest that modernity is somehow devoid of something of utmost importance. Sixteen years after the death of Leo Strauss, certainly one of the most profound thinkers in the twentieth century, the model of liberal democracy has been declared victorious, not to say final and true. Due to unrestrained acceptance of such a perspective, a real tension between human beings disappears as there is only one way of being 'correct'. Having taken it into consideration, we point toward something that goes beyond the discussion about the pros and cons of liberal democracy. It would be presumptuous to believe that the current embrace of the liberal-democratic model of culture has definitely settled the question, 'How to live?' And if modernity threatens to silence this most important question, or to neglect its importance as seen by common sense, it seems all the more important to show that the contemporary answers fall short of being self-evident.


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Glaube und Wissen : der Briefwechsel zwischen Eric Voegelin und Leo Strauss von 1934 bis 1964
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ISBN: 3846749672 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paderborn : Wilhelm Fink Verlag,

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Die Zahl deutscher Philosophen von internationalem Rang in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist eher begrenzt. Neben Hannah Arendt und Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas und Hans Blumenberg, gehören zu ihr auch zwei Männer, die in den 30er Jahren Europa verließen, in den USA eine neue akademische Karriere begannen und zu Weltruhm gelangten: Leo Strauss und Eric Voegelin. Mit den Namen dieser beiden deutschen Emigranten verbinden sich neben ihrer scharfsinnigen Kritik an einer zum Positivismus verflachten Sozialwissenschaft die Bemühungen um eine Wiederbelebung der griechischen politischen Philosophie. Dass beide Denker jenseits dieser Gemeinsamkeiten höchst unterschiedliche philosophische Positionen vertraten, ist eine der zahlreichen Erkenntnisse, den ihr über zwei Jahrzehnte geführte Briefwechsel vermittelt. Nachdem dieser schon in englischer und französischer Übersetzung vorliegt, erscheint er hier erstmals in der Originalfassung. Ein Dokument von besonderem Reiz. Hans-Georg Gadamer


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Glaube und Wissen : der Briefwechsel zwischen Erich Voegelin und Leo Strauss von 1934 bis 1964.
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ISBN: 9783770549672 Year: 2010 Publisher: München Fink

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Resisting History : Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought
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ISBN: 0691115931 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins. By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ills. Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence.After examining the growing dominance of the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, the book analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer. For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world. And yet, as they set out to dilute or eliminate its destructive tendencies, these thinkers often made recourse to the very tools and methods of historicism. In doing so, they demonstrated the utter inescapability of historicism in modern culture, whether approached from a Christian or Jewish perspective.

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