Leo Strauss’s Defense of the Philosophic Life
Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?"
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INTRODUCTION. Thinking Through Strauss’s Legacy
Rafael Major
CHAPTER 1. Reading “What Is Political Philosophy?”
Nasser Behnegar
CHAPTER 2. “Political Philosophy and History”
Catherine Zuckert
CHAPTER 3. Leo Strauss’s “On Classical Political Philosophy”
Nathan Tarcov
CHAPTER 4. Philosophic Politics and Theology: Strauss’s “Restatement”
Christopher Nadon
CHAPTER 5. How Strauss Read Farabi’s Summary of Plato’s “Laws”
Daniel Tanguay
CHAPTER 6. Strauss on Maimonides’s Secretive Political Science
Joshua Parens
CHAPTER 7. Leo Strauss’s “On the Basis of Hobbes’s Political Philosophy”
Devin Stauffer
CHAPTER 8. Strauss on Locke and the Law of Nature
Michael Zuckert
CHAPTER 9. Fishing for Philosophers: Strauss’s “Restatement” on the Art of Writing
David Janssens
CHAPTER 10. “Kurt Riezler: 1882–1955” and the “Problem” of Political Philosophy
Susan Meld Shell
List of Contributors
Index
Philosophy: General Philosophy
Political Science: Classic Political Thought | Political and Social Theory
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