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

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Among the political philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss is usually singled out for his attempt to revitalize the ancient approach to counter the relativism of both historicism and positivism. It is less commonly underscored, however, that the cornerstone of this attempt is the recovery of the question of "nature, " which he regarded as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece. Leo Strauss and the Recovery of "Natural Philosophizing" addresses such a theme, focusing on the theoretical presuppositions that Strauss found at the basis of the acquired inability to raise the question of nature. Prominent among these is the encounter between philosophy and revelation, which, due to their conceptual incompatibility, leads to a condition Strauss metaphorically described as a "second, 'unnatural' cave" characterized by insurmountable "prejudices" rather than "appearance and opinion." These, however, are the starting point of genuine philosophy in the Platonic "first, 'natural' cave, " which has to be regained, by way of historical deconstruction of the presuppositions of the second cave, if the "natural philosophizing" embodied by Socratic dialectics is to be reactivated.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781438498621
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophers

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction “What Is Nature?” Leo Strauss and Socrates’s Turn to logoi
  8. Chapter I Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Search for the “Order of Human Things”
  9. Chapter II Ancient Liberalism vs. Modern Liberalism
  10. Chapter III The “Second Cave” and Historical Consciousness in the Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger
  11. Chapter IV Natural Right in Strauss and Krüger’s Exchange
  12. Chapter V Strauss and the “Politicization of Philosophy”
  13. Chapter VI The “Pit beneath the Cave” and the Problem of Natural Right
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index of Names
  18. Back Cover