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Wussow, Philipp von. The philosophy of Leo Strauss: culture, religion, and the political / Philipp von Wussow. — 1 online resource. — (SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2478377.pdf>.

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  • Contents
  • 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”
    • Introduction
    • 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
      • Strauss’s Initial Argument (Philosophy and Law, chapter 1, part 1)
      • Culture, Religion, and the Quest for a “Resolute Return” (chapter 1, part 2)
      • Introducing Exotericism (chapter 1, part 3)
      • Refuting Exotericism (chapter 2)
      • Theoretical Difficulties (chapter 1, part 3 continued)
      • Maimonides’s Critique of Reason (chapter 1, part 4)
      • Introducing the Scholarly Argument (chapter 1, part 5)
      • The Scholarly Argument (chapter 3)
      • Strauss’s Conclusions (chapter 1, part 5)
    • 9. A Complex Afterlife: Julius Guttmann, the “Jewish Thomism” Affair, and the Turn to Exotericism
      • Building a Straw Man: Guttmann’s Reply
      • “Jewish Thomism”
      • “Returning” to Maimonides: Strauss’s Turn to Exotericism
  • Part III: “German Nihilism” and the Intellectual Origins of National Socialism
    • 10. Genealogies of National Socialism
      • A Brief Outline of the Genre
      • The Cases of Lutheranism and Romanticism
      • German Idealism: Santayana, Dewey, and Beyond
      • Nietzsche and National Socialism
      • Two Interpretations of German Philosophy and Politics
    • 11. Strauss’s Argument
      • German Nihilism as Anticommunism
      • A Parable of Liberal Education
      • A Second Narrative on German Philosophy and Politics
      • Conclusion
  • 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?
      • The Setting
      • Education “Toward Culture”
      • Two Concepts of Culture: The Starting Point
      • A Third Concept of Culture
      • Jerusalem and Athens: Western Universalism Redefined
      • Jerusalem versus Athens
      • Dissolving the Binary
  • Conclusion: Leo Strauss and “the Natural Way” of Reading
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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