von Wussow Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7841-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss

This archive-based study of the philosophy of Leo Strauss provides in-depth interpretations of key texts and their larger theoretical contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

von Wussow, Philipp

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture

Part I: The Return of Religion, the Remnants of Neo-Kantianism, and the Systematic Place of "the Political"

1. Hermann Cohen on the Systematic Place of Religion

2. Post-Cohenian Quarrels: Rosenzweig, Natorp, Strauss

3. Strauss on Paul Natorp and Ernst Cassirer

4. Returning to Cohen: "Cohen and Maimonides" on Ethics and Politics

5. Strauss and Carl Schmitt: Vanquishing the "Systematics of Liberal Thought"

Part II: The Argument and the Action of Philosophy and Law

6. A Hidden Masterpiece of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

7. Strauss's Introduction

8. Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann on the History of Jewish Philosophy

9. A Complex Afterlife: Julius Guttmann, the "Jewish Thomism" Affair, and the Turn to Exotericism

Part III: "German Nihilism" and the Intellectual Origins of National Socialism

10. Genealogies of National Socialism

11. Strauss's Argument

Part IV: Strauss on Modern Relativism

12. From "Culture" to "Cultures": Émigré Scholars, the Rise of Cultural Anthropology, and the Americanization of Leo Strauss

13. Cannibalism: Leo Strauss and Cultural Anthropology

14. Irrationalism and the Remnants of the Social Question

15. Two Types of Relativism

Part V: Jerusalem and Athens

16. Jerusalem and Athens or Jerusalem versus Athens?

Conclusion: Leo Strauss and "the Natural Way" of Reading

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philipp von Wussow is Senior Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.