Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: Leo Strauss Today
- 2 Leo Strauss: The Outlines of a Life
- 3 Leo Strauss and the “Theologico-Political Predicament”
- 4 Strauss’s Recovery of Esotericism
- 5 Strauss’s Return to Premodern Thought
- 6 Leo Strauss and the Problem of the Modern
- 7 The Medieval Arabic Enlightenment
- 8 “To Spare the Vanquished and Crush the Arrogant”: Leo Strauss’s Lecture on “German Nihilism”
- 9 Leo Strauss’s Qualified Embrace of Liberal Democracy
- 10 Strauss and Social Science
- 11 The Complementarity of Political Philosophy and Liberal Education in the Thought of Leo Strauss
- 12 Straussians
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: Leo Strauss Today
- 2 Leo Strauss: The Outlines of a Life
- 3 Leo Strauss and the “Theologico-Political Predicament”
- 4 Strauss’s Recovery of Esotericism
- 5 Strauss’s Return to Premodern Thought
- 6 Leo Strauss and the Problem of the Modern
- 7 The Medieval Arabic Enlightenment
- 8 “To Spare the Vanquished and Crush the Arrogant”: Leo Strauss’s Lecture on “German Nihilism”
- 9 Leo Strauss’s Qualified Embrace of Liberal Democracy
- 10 Strauss and Social Science
- 11 The Complementarity of Political Philosophy and Liberal Education in the Thought of Leo Strauss
- 12 Straussians
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss , pp. i - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009