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Stephan Steiner presents a historical-biographical study of Leo Strauss in which he investigates the contexts and origins of Strauss’s political philosophy. By emphasizing the transformation of Strauss’s philosophic position in the USA Steiner not only situates Strauss in the constellations of the Weimar Republic - such as the sociology of knowledge, historicism, and dialectical theology - but shows how he brought a specifically German critique of modernity to America. In order to trace this development in detail, the author reconstructs Strauss’s understanding of revelation, his critique of historicism, and the philosophical-historical presuppositions of his view of antiquity. Instead of simply relying on autobiographical statements or the desire for unifying Strauss’s thought, Steiner offers an experiential account that renders readable the historical conditions of his political philosophy.

Strauss --- Strauss - Leo - 1899-1973

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Philosophie politique --- Strauss, Leo, --- Critique et interprétation --- Strauss, Leo --- Political science --- Science politique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Strauss, Leo. --- Philosophie politique.

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Enlightenment --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Philosophy --- Political science --- History --- Philosophy --- Strauss, Leo.

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"Interprets Leo Strauss's political philosphy from a conservative standpoint and argues that Strauss was a Cold War liberal. Suggests inattention to Christianity is crucial to the Straussian portrayal of Anglo-American democracy as a universal regime whose eternal ideals of liberty and constitutional governmnent accord with the teachings of Plato and Aristotle, rather than the Gospels"--

Political science --- Conservatism --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Strauss, Leo. --- Christian politics, Straussianism, Greek tradition of statecraft, Christian morality, constitutional government.

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The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school. Laurence Lampert focuses on exotericism: the use of artful rhetoric to simultaneously communicate a socially responsible message to the public at large and a more radical message of philosophic truth to a smaller, more intellectually inclined audience. Largely forgotten after the Enlightenment, exotericism, he shows, deeply informed Strauss both as a reader and as a philosophic writer-indeed, Lampert argues, Strauss learned from the finest practitioners of exoteric writing how to become one himself. Examining some of Strauss's most important books and essays through this exoteric lens, Lampert reevaluates not only Strauss but the philosophers-from Plato to Halevi to Nietzsche-with whom Strauss most deeply engaged. Ultimately Lampert shows that Strauss's famous distinction between ancient and modern thinkers is primarily rhetorical, one of the great examples of Strauss's exoteric craft. Celebrating Strauss's achievements while recognizing one main shortcoming-unlike Nietzsche, he failed to appreciate the ramifications of modern natural science for philosophy and its public presentation-Lampert illuminates Strauss as having even greater philosophic importance than we have thought before.

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