Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Editors’ Introduction....Pages 1-12
How Strauss Became Strauss....Pages 13-32
Spinoza’s Critique of Religion: Reading the Low in Light of the High....Pages 33-56
The Light Shed on the Crucial Development of Strauss’s Thought by His Correspondence with Gerhard Krüger....Pages 57-68
Strauss on Hermann Cohen’s “Idealizing” Appropriation of Maimonides as A Platonist....Pages 69-78
Strauss on the Religious and Intellectual Situation of the Present....Pages 79-113
Carl Schmitt and Strauss’s Return to Premodern Philosophy....Pages 115-129
Leo Strauss on the Origins of Hobbes’s Natural Science and Its Relation to the Challenge of Divine Revelation....Pages 131-156
Leo Strauss on Farabi, Maimonides, et al. in the 1930S....Pages 157-169
The Problem of the Enlightenment: Strauss, Jacobi, and the Pantheism Controversy....Pages 171-190
“Through the Keyhole”: Leo Strauss’s Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lacedaemonians....Pages 191-201
Strauss and Schleiermacher on How to Read Plato: An Introduction to “Exoteric Teaching”....Pages 203-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-316