ENGLISH

The Early Writings, 1921-1932

By Leo Strauss

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0791453294, 9780791453292
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10997201 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in the Jewish Writings of Leo Strauss
Pages
249\249
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

This translation of eighteen virtually unknown early publications provides access for the first time to the origins of Leo Strauss’s thought in the intellectual life of the German Jewish ’renaissance’ in the 1920s. Themes range from the Enlightenment critique of the religion of Spinoza and the anti-critique of Jacobi, to the political Zionism of Herzl and the cultural Zionism of Buber and Ahad Ha’am. The essays and reviews reprinted in this volume document a youth caught in the “theological-political” conflict between the irretrievability of premodern religion and the disenchantedness of “honest” atheism, an impossible alternative that precipitated Strauss to seek out the possibility of a return to the level of natural ignorance presupposed in Socratic political philosophy.

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