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History of Political Philosophy. Author. Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey. Subject. This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century.
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The “Straussian” approach to the history of political philosophy is articulated primarily in the writings of Leo Strauss. Strauss wrote extremely careful, detailed studies of canonical philosophical works along with essays explaining his approach.
It explains how and why the challenge to, and the critique of, the philosophical life posed by politics and religion must be grasped as the theme of Leo Strauss’s work and why Strauss takes the philosophical refutation of faith in revelation to be a theologico-political problem.
The author argues that Strauss's claims for the necessity of turning to the history of political philosophy in order to recover the possibility of political philosophy are in part the result of his reflections on Heidegger.
Aug 5, 2014 · Esotericism is the heart of Strauss’s political philosophy. It is his key insight; it defines the hermeneutical methodology he founded and propagated; above all, it animates his experience of intellectual life.
- Ronald Beiner
- 2014
Known as a reviver of political philosophy as a field in its own right, Strauss presented it to stand or fall by the truthfulness of the historicist tenet that “the fundamental distinction between philosophic and historical questions cannot in the last analysis be ma ined.inta” 1 Political philosophy, Strauss insisted, is the quest
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The dual beginning point—in political life and in philosophy as Socratically conceived—constitutes “the problem of political philosophy” that Strauss referred to in the first lecture of his series “What Is Political Philosophy?” (see chapter 1 above).
