Ebook: The Early Writings, 1921-1932
Author: Leo Strauss
- Genre: History
- Series: SUNY Series in the Jewish Writings of Leo Strauss
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Language: English
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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.
The early published writings of the distinguished political philosopher Leo Strauss, available here for the first time in English.
The early published writings of the distinguished political philosopher Leo Strauss, available here for the first time in English.
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