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  1. Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy.Jens Kristian Larsen & Pål Rykkja Gilbert - forthcoming - Brill.
    Phenomenology and ancient Greek philosophy. The title of this book, indicating these topics as its two main subjects, could give the impression that the subjects are held together by a circumstantial “and.” The title would then indicate a connection between phenomenology and a topic, ancient Greek philosophy, the way titles such as Art and Phenomenology, Phenomenology and Psychological Research, Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics do. This impression would be wrong. First, ancient Greek philosophers take pride of place in the dialogues initiated (...)
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  2. Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.Costin Vlad Alamariu - 2023 - Independently published.
    Based on his dissertation (Yale). -/- This is an argument that philosophy is born with and dependent on the idea of nature; and that this idea was first discovered or manifested in the perception of biological reality, in particular the perception of hereditary transmission of physical and behavioral qualities, together with the perception that moral and legal codes are relative and contingent. It was generally only within the spiritual and intellectual horizon of certain types of aristocracies to have access to (...)
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  3. Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy. By JoshuaParens. Pp. xii, 191, Rochester, NY/Woodbridge, UK, University of Rochester Press, 2016, $24.95. [REVIEW]Patrick Madigan - 2020 - Heythrop Journal 61 (1):152-153.
  4. Maimonides’ Secret: Leo Strauss’s “The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed ”.Beau Shaw - 2020 - Sophia 59 (2):247-271.
    This article offers a new account of Leo Strauss’s interpretation of Maimonides’ esoteric teaching in the Guide for the Perplexed, which Strauss offers in his seminal essay ‘The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed.’ According to the generally-accepted view, for Strauss, Maimonides’ esoteric teaching is the identity of the secrets of the Torah with Aristotelian philosophy, and—since that philosophy contradicts the foundational beliefs of the Torah—that the Torah has the merely instrumental function of bringing about political well-being. By (...)
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  5. Xenophon, socrates and Strauss - Pangle the socratic way of life: Xenophon's memorabilia. Pp. XII + 288. Chicago and London: The university of chicago press, 2018. Cased, £26.50, us$35. Isbn: 978-0-226-51689-9. [REVIEW]Michel Narcy - 2019 - The Classical Review 69 (1):48-50.
  6. Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought, edited by Timothy W. Burns.Mark Blitz - 2018 - Polis 35 (2):569-571.
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  7. Leo Strauss and the classics. Burns Brill's companion to Leo Strauss’ writings on classical political thought. Pp. XIV + 480. Leiden and boston: Brill, 2015. Cased, €168, us$218. Isbn: 978-90-04-24335-4. [REVIEW]Rodrigo Chacon - 2018 - The Classical Review 68 (1):281-283.
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  8. Political Theory Between Philosophy and Rhetoric: Politics as Transcendence and Contingency.Giuseppe Ballacci - 2017 - London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan Uk.
    This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric, as it was discussed by Plato, Aristotle, and above all Cicero and Quintilian, who ambitiously attempted to bring (...)
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  9. Theory, Practice, and Modernity: Leo Strauss on Rousseau’s Epicureanism.Jared Holley - 2017 - Journal of the History of Ideas 78 (4):621-644.
  10. Poetry, Philosophy, and Esotericism: A Straussian Legacy.Jacob Howland - 2016 - Polis 33 (1):130-149.
    This article concerns the ‘ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry’. With the guidance of Leo Strauss, and with reference to French cultural anthropology and the Hebrew Bible, I offer close readings of the origin myths told by the characters of Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium and Socrates in book 2 of the Republic. I contrast Aristophanes’ prudential and political esotericism with Socrates’ pedagogical esotericism, connecting the former with poetry’s affirmation of the primacy of chaos and the latter with philosophy’s openness to (...)
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  11. Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy.Joshua Parens - 2016 - Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
    Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy. Strauss recovered that great tradition of thought largely lost to the West by beginning his study of classical thought with its teaching on politics rather than its metaphysics. What brought Strauss to this way of reading the classics, however, was a discovery he made as a young political scientist studying the obscure texts of Islamic and Jewish medieval political thought. In this volume, Joshua Parens examines Strauss's investigations of medieval political (...)
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  12. Political Thought in Xenophon: Straussian Readings of the Anabasis.Tim Rood - 2015 - Polis 32 (1):143-165.
    The main aim of this paper is to discuss some influential approaches to political thought in Xenophon’s Anabasis within the field of Political Science, especially within the United States, where the influence of Leo Strauss’ writings on Xenophon has been powerful. It starts by discussing a number of features shared by these discussions, notably a strong idealisation of Xenophon’s wisdom and accuracy; a lack of interest in the conditions under which Xenophon wrote; a pro-Hellenic perspective; and a tendency to innovative (...)
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  13. Defense of Truth.M. H. Jamshidi & M. Karimi Beiranvand - 2014 - Metaphysics (University of Isfahan) 5 (16):73-92.
    Husserl and Strauss are two philosophers that intended to reform philosophic thought and thereupon political philosophy. But despite of common view about end and foundations, how and why Husserl is included in the class of pioneers of battle against metaphysical philosophy and Strauss is reputed against him as the leader of classic and Conservative Philosophy? According to Thomas Spreagens’ epistemological method, even though this Germanic teacher and his pupil have common preoccupation about the sunset of philosophical truth-seeking thought, their different (...)
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  14. Machiavelli in esilio: le letture di Leo Strauss e Eric Voegelin.Alejandro Bárcenas - 2013-2014 - Atti E Memorie Dell’Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere Ed Arti Già Dei Ricovrati E Patavina 126 (3):265-281.
  15. Leo Strauss’s discovery of the theologico-political problem.Steven Benjamin Smith - 2013 - European Journal of Political Theory 12 (4):388-408.
    Leo Strauss once called the theologico-political problem ‘the theme of my investigations’ from the 1920s on. What justified this remark is by no means obvious. This article examines the origins of Strauss’s concern with political theology in his earliest writings on Zionism and Jewish thought during the Weimar period. Here we see Strauss, at the outset of his career as a young Zionist committed to a programme of political atheism, slowly begin to develop the idea that the conflict between unbelief (...)
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  16. Sufficient Reason and the Causal Argument for Monism.Landon Frim - 2011 - Society and Politics 5 (2):137-158.
    What is the role of the principle of sufficient reason in Baruch Spinoza’s ontological proof for God’s existence? Is this role identical within Spinoza’s early work on method, the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, and his magnum opus, the Ethics? This paper argues affirmatively that the methodology employed within the Ethics is consonant with that method found within the Treatise, and this claim is substantiated through an engagement with the influential works of Don Garrett and Aaron Garrett. It (...)
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  17. Stanley Rosen’s Critique of Leo Strauss.Alexander S. Duff - 2010 - Review of Metaphysics 63 (3):615-642.
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  18. Review Article: Leo Strauss.Crystal C. Paris - 2010 - European Journal of Political Theory 9 (3):347-356.
  19. Must Philosophy Be Political?: Heidegger and Strauss on 'First Philosophy'.David Tkach - 2010 - Gnosis 11 (2):1-17.
    The question of where philosophic examination must begin and what objects must it first examine is important no matter what philosophic perspective or approach one holds, and the response to such a question thereby determines both the form and the content of the philosophical conclusions one can reach. Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss both present complex and controversial responses to the question of what ‘first philosophy’ is. My paper consists primarily of a comparison of these two conceptions, as well as (...)
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  20. Leo Strauss and the Principles of the Right: an Introduction to Strauss' Letter.Alan Gilbert - 2009 - Constellations 16 (1):78-81.
  21. Schmitt e Strauss: um diálogo oblíquo.Cássio Corrêa Benjamin - 2008 - Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 49 (118):443-448.
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  22. Political (or) Philosophy? A Critical Account of Leo Strauss’s Response to the Crisis of Modernity.Ömür Birler - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 50:37-43.
    Leo Strauss has generally been regarded as an historian of ideas, albeit a very unusual one. He wrote many very momentous commentaries on the major figures in the history of political thought; yet Strauss’ main intellectual quest was to take himself back in the history, to classical antiquity and to the fountainhead of political philosophy, Plato. In this paper, however, I am mostly interested in the philosophical nature of Strauss’s basic dissatisfaction with modernity and with the adequacy of his criticisms. (...)
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  23. Review: Leo Strauss and the American Imperial Project. [REVIEW]Shadia B. Drury - 2007 - Political Theory 35 (1):62 - 67.
  24. Review: Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem. [REVIEW]David Janssens - 2007 - Political Theory 35 (1):75-77.
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  25. Esotericism Ancient and Modern.Michael L. Frazer - 2006 - Political Theory 34 (1):33-61.
    Leo Strauss presents at least two distinct accounts of the idea that the authors in the political-philosophical canon have often masked their true teachings. A weaker account of esotericism, dependent on the contingent fact of presecution, is attributed to the moderns, while a stronger account, stemming from a necessary conflict between philosophy and society, is attributed to the ancients. Although most interpreters agree that Strauss here sides with the ancients, this view fails to consider the possibility that Strauss's writings on (...)
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  26. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire. [REVIEW]Larry N. George - 2006 - Political Theory 34 (3):401-408.
  27. Esoteric Versus Latent Teaching.Frederick J. Crosson - 2005 - Review of Metaphysics 59 (1):73-93.
    ONE OF THE IDEAS TO WHICH LEO STRAUSS drew the attention of many readers in the last century is that of a difference between exoteric and esoteric philosophical writing. These terms can refer to different kinds of philosophical teaching, one kind intended for a general and the other kind for a more restricted audience. Indeed, it seems to be the case historically that it was Aristotle who first used one of the terms in such a sense, as will be discussed (...)
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  28. Leo Strauss : un criticisme de la preuve.Gérald Sfez - 2005 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 130 (1):3.
    Cette analyse des textes de Leo Strauss sur « l ' art d ' écrire » en situation de persécution cherche à en faire ressortir la cohérence et l ' intérêt. Sont examinés successivement la question du contexte, les modalités de la preuve, le caractère crypté de la vérité, la position d ' infériorité du censeur, la nécessité de mettre plusieurs textes en relation, les rapports de la philosophie et de la foi. L ' analyse freudienne du Moïse de Michel (...)
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  29. Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics. [REVIEW]Fred Baumann - 2004 - Isis 95:139-140.
  30. Tra le righe: Leo Strauss su cristianesimo e liberalismo.Raimondo Cubeddu - 2004 - Lungro di Cosenza, Italia: Marco.
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  31. Reading Max Weber Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin.John Gunnell - 2004 - European Journal of Political Theory 3 (2):151-166.
    Leo Strauss»s Natural Right and History and Eric Voegelin»s New Science of Politics represented both a continuation of the Weimar conversation and a projection into the American context of the issues that defined that conversation. They each chose Max Weber as the pivotal figure in their animadversions regarding historicism, relativism, and the condition of social science, but, as in the case of Weber himself, the underlying issue, which animated the emigres across the ideological spectrum, was the relationship between theory and (...)
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  32. The Unavailability of the Ordinary.Robert Pippin - 2003 - Political Theory 31 (3):335-358.
    In Natural Right and History Leo Strauss argues for the continuing “relevance” of the classical understanding of natural right. Since this relevance is not a matter of a direct return, or a renewed appreciation that a neglected doctrine is simply true, the meaning of this claim is some- what elusive. But it is clear enough that the core of Strauss’s argument for that relevance is a claim about the relation between human experience and philosophy. Strauss argues that the classical understanding (...)
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  33. From nature to history, and back again: Blumenberg, Strauss and the Hobbesian community.Majid Yar - 2002 - History of the Human Sciences 15 (3):53-73.
    This article explores the origins of the problematic of political community by considering it in relation to the founding principles of `modern thought'. These principles are identified with the extirpation of moral values and ends from nature, in keeping with the rise of a `disenchanted' and mechanical scientific world-view. The transition from an `ancient' to a `modern' world-view is elaborated by drawing upon the work of Hans Blumenberg and Leo Strauss. The `demoralization' of nature, it is claimed, projects the formation (...)
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  34. Philosophy and 'The Literary Question': Wittgenstein, Emerson, and Strauss on the Community of Knowing.William Blaine Day - 1999 - Dissertation, Columbia University
    Despite their differences, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Leo Strauss share two key philosophical commitments. They recognize that philosophy cannot establish or discover a conceptual structure to which one might appeal to justify what one says. And they agree that the task of philosophical writing is to convey a way of thinking set apart from that which seeks to establish or discover conceptual structures. Yet each knows that his writing, in the absence of a universal ground of appeal, will (...)
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  35. The Philosopher Versus the Citizen.Dana R. Villa - 1998 - Political Theory 26 (2):147-172.
  36. McAllister, Ted V. Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order. [REVIEW]Scott P. Richert - 1997 - Review of Metaphysics 50 (3):675-676.
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  37. The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism. [REVIEW]Darrel D. Colson - 1991 - Ancient Philosophy 11 (2):461-465.
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  38. Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss.Ronald Beiner - 1990 - Political Theory 18 (2):238-254.
  39. [Communication Regarding Professor Vera's Recent Review of Strauss's Book].Thomas Davidson - 1874 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 8 (3):281-282.
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