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Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism Hardcover - 2006

by Steven B. Smith


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Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy--perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in Reading Leo Strauss, Smith shows that Strauss's defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and extreme Right. Smith asserts that this philosophical skepticism defined Strauss's thought. It was as a skeptic, Smith argues, that Strauss considered the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between reason and revelation--a conflict Strauss dubbed the "theologico-political problem." Calling this problem "the theme of my investigations," Strauss asked the same fundamental question throughout his life: what is the relation of the political order to revelation in general and Judaism in particular? Smith organizes his book with this question, first addressing Strauss's views on religion and then examining his thought on philosophical and political issues. In his investigation of these philosophical and political issues, Smith assesses Strauss's attempt to direct the teaching of political science away from the examination of mass behavior and interest group politics and toward the study of the philosophical principles on which politics are based. With his provocative, lucid essays, Smith goes a long way toward establishing a distinctive form of Straussian liberalism.

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  • Title Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
  • Author Steven B. Smith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 268
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2006-05
  • ISBN 9780226764023 / 0226764028
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.34 x 0.81 in (23.37 x 16.10 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Strauss, Leo, Political science - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005030549
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.01

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/06/2006, Page 0
  • New York Times, 06/25/2006, Page 25

About the author

Steven B. Smith is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of four books, most recently Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the "Ethics."

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