List Books » Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought
Authors: Leo Strauss, Kenneth Hart Green
ISBN-13: 9780791427743, ISBN-10: 0791427749
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of Strauss's contributions as a modern Jewish thinker. These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the "postcritical" reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting in rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker.
Acknowledgments | ||
Editor's Preface | ||
Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker | 1 | |
Pt. I | Essays in Modern Jewish Thought | |
1 | Progress or Return? (1952) | 87 |
2 | Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965) | 137 |
Pt. II | Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers | |
3 | How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948) | 181 |
4 | Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952) | 235 |
5 | Introductory Essay to Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1972) | 267 |
Pt. III | Lectures on Contemporary Jewish Issues | |
6 | Freud on Moses and Monotheism (1958) | 285 |
7 | Why We Remain Jews (1962) | 311 |
Pt. IV | Studies on the Hebrew Bible | |
8 | On the Interpretation of Genesis (1957) | 359 |
9 | Jerusalem and Athens (1967) | 377 |
Pt. V | Comments on Jewish History | |
10 | What Is Political Philosophy? [The First Paragraph] (1954) | 409 |
11 | Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History (1957) | 411 |
12 | Letter to the Editor: The State of Israel (1957) | 413 |
Pt. VI | Miscellaneous Writings on Jews and Judaism | |
13 | Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952) | 417 |
14 | Perspectives on the Good Society (1963) | 431 |
Pt. VII | Autobiographical Reflections | |
15 | An Unspoken Prologue (1959) | 449 |
16 | Preface to Hobbes Politische Wissenschaft (1965) | 453 |
17 | A Giving of Accounts (1970) | 457 |
App. 1 | Plan of a Book Tentatively Entitled Philosophy and the Law: Historical Essays (1946) | 467 |
App. 2 | Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero [The Last Paragraph] (1950) | 471 |
App. 3 | Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson (1961) | 475 |
Sources | 477 | |
Bibliography | 479 | |
Index | 489 |