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  1. Leo Strauss and contemporary thought: reading Strauss outside the lines.Jeffrey Alan Bernstein & Jade Schiff (eds.) - 2021 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    Leo Strauss's readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary thinkers has not enjoyed the same coverage. In Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought, an international group of scholars examines the possible conversations between Strauss and figures such as Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, and Hans Blumenberg. The contributors examine topics including religious liberty, the political function of comedy, law, and the relation between the Ancients and the Moderns, (...)
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  • Who’s Laughing?Menachem Feuer - 2021 - In Jeffrey Alan Bernstein & Jade Schiff (eds.), Leo Strauss and contemporary thought: reading Strauss outside the lines. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 295-322.
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  • Life and Violence.David Kishik - 2010 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2010 (150):143-149.
    The word for “life” and the word for “violence” are etymological neighbors in many languages. Compare, for example, vita and vis in Latin, bios and bia in Greek, jivah and jiya in Sanskrit, as well as the Indo-European *guiuos and *guiie (all the former stand for “life,” “aliveness,” or “living,” while the latter stand for “violence,” “force,” or “strength”). But when you try to trace a genealogy of this decisive link within the field of theory, rather than that of linguistics, (...)
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