Research Catalog

Title

The rebirth of classical political rationalism : an introduction to the thought of Leo Strauss : essays and lectures / by Leo Strauss ; selected and introduced by Thomas L. Pangle.

Author

Strauss, Leo

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pangle, Thomas L.

Description

xxxviii, 285 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss's mature work.

Subjects

• Strauss, Leo 1899-1973
• History
• Rationalism > History
• Political science > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 279-281.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Editor's Introduction / Thomas L. Pangle -- PART ONE: THE SPIRITUAL CRISIS OF MODERN RATIONALISM -- Social Science and Humanism -- "Relativism" -- An Introduction to Heideggerian Existentialism -- PART TWO: CLASSICAL POLITICAL RATIONALISM -- Classical Political Rationalism -- On Classical Political Philosophy -- Exoteric Teaching -- Thucydides: The Meaning of Political History -- The Problem of Socrates: Five Lectures -- PART THREE: THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN REASON AND REVELATION -- The Dialogue between Reason and Revelation -- On the Euthyphron -- How to Begin to Study Medieval Philosophy -- Progress or Return?

ISBN

• 0226777146
• 0226777154 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^88020614^

OCLC

• 18257332
• SCSB-10352842

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library