Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography - Hardcover

Tanguay, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300109792 ISBN 13: 9780300109795

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2007

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Book by Tanguay Daniel

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"Daniel Tanguay's intellectual biography of Leo Strauss is the fullest and fairest analysis of Leo Strauss's thought available in any language."-Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College -- Daniel J. Mahoney "This may well be the best study of Leo Strauss yet to appear. It evokes a detailed account of Strauss the thinker rather than the icon of ideology and has something useful to say about all aspects of Strauss's work. Tanguay is especially helpful for his account of the Jewish and Arabic Strauss and the interplay of this side of Strauss's thinking with his understanding of the roots of modernity. I was struck by his observation that Strauss is not a conservative because he devalues convention in favor of nature. I recommend this book very highly."-Stanley Rosen -- Stanley Rosen "Tanguay's comprehensive and penetrating book explores Strauss's approach to the theologico-political problem... Admirably translated... Tanguay offers an intellectual biography in which Strauss's later works are repeatedly treated as refinements of earlier efforts."-The Review of Metaphysics The Review of Metaphysics

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Since political theorist Leo Strauss's death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and academic discussions of his work. Tanguay offers in crystal-clear prose the first assessment of the whole of Strauss's thought, a daunting task owing to the vastness and scope of Strauss's writings. This comprehensive overview of Strauss's thought is indispensable for anyone seeking to understand his philosophy and legacy. Tanguay gives special attention to Strauss's little-known formative years, 1920-1938, during which the philosopher elaborated the theme of his research, what he termed the "theological-political problem." Tanguay shows the connection of this theme to other major elements in Strauss's thought, such as the Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns, the return to classical natural right, the art of esoteric writing, and his critique of modernity. In so doing, the author approaches what is at the heart of Strauss's work: God and politics. Rescuing Strauss from polemics and ill-defined generalizations about his ideas, Tanguay provides instead an important and timely analysis of a major philosophical thinker of the twentieth century.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300109792
• ISBN 13: 9780300109795
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256