The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss [Hardcover]

The volume provides a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work.The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strausss work. The volume also examines Strausss complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of Straussian political philosophy.The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strausss work. The volume also examines Strausss complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of Straussian political philosophy.Leo Strauss was a central figure in the 20th century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strausss work. These include his revival of the great quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strausss complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of Straussian political philosophy.1. Introduction: Leo Strauss today Steven B. Smith; 2. Leo Strauss: the outlines of a life Steven B. Smith; 3. Leo Strauss and the theologico-political predicament Leora Batnitsky; 4. Strauss's recovery of esotericism Laurence Lampert; 5. Strauss's return to pre-modern thought Catherine Zuckert; 6. Leo Strauss and the problem of the modern Stanley Rosen; 7. The medieval Arabic l£J