Persecution and the Art of Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution and the Art of Writing write by Leo Strauss. This book was released on 1988-10-15. Persecution and the Art of Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.
Persecution and Art of Writing
Persecution and Art of Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution and Art of Writing write by Laura Strauss. This book was released on 1952-06-01. Persecution and Art of Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Persecution and the Art of Writing
Persecution and the Art of Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution and the Art of Writing write by Leo Strauss. This book was released on 2013-05-10. Persecution and the Art of Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.
Philosophy Between the Lines
Philosophy Between the Lines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy Between the Lines write by Arthur M. Melzer. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Philosophy Between the Lines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Shines a floodlight on a topic that has been cloaked in obscurity . . . a landmark work in both intellectual history and political theory” (The Wall Street Journal). Philosophical esotericism—the practice of communicating one’s unorthodox thoughts “between the lines”—was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. Despite its long and well-documented history, however, esotericism is often dismissed today as a rare occurrence. But by ignoring esotericism, we risk cutting ourselves off from a full understanding of Western philosophical thought. Walking readers through both an ancient (Plato) and a modern (Machiavelli) esoteric work, Arthur M. Melzer explains what esotericism is—and is not. It relies not on secret codes, but simply on a more intensive use of familiar rhetorical techniques like metaphor, irony, and insinuation. Melzer explores the various motives that led thinkers in different times and places to engage in this strange practice, while also exploring the motives that lead more recent thinkers not only to dislike and avoid this practice but to deny its very existence. In the book’s final section, “A Beginner’s Guide to Esoteric Reading,” Melzer turns to how we might once again cultivate the long-forgotten art of reading esoteric works. The first comprehensive, book-length study of the history and theoretical basis of philosophical esotericism, Philosophy Between the Lines is “a treasure-house of insight and learning. It is that rare thing: an eye-opening book . . . By making the world before Enlightenment appear as strange as it truly was, [Melzer] makes our world stranger than we think it is” (George Kateb, Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University). “Brilliant, pellucid, and meticulously researched.” —City Journal
Perversion and the Art of Persecution
Perversion and the Art of Persecution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perversion and the Art of Persecution write by Sean Noah Walsh. This book was released on 2012. Perversion and the Art of Persecution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this critical work on the political thought of Leo Strauss, Sean Noah Walsh addresses Leo Strauss's claims about esotericism in the philosophic texts of Plato. He challenges Strauss's understanding of esoteric writing as an attempt by Plato to secretly encode the highest truths "exclusively between the lines" in order to avoid persecution. Indeed, through the character of Socrates, the speaker with whom Plato is inextricably associated, Walsh asserts that Plato's exoteric writings were sufficiently incendiary and provocative to demonstrate that a fear of persecution was not his highest priority. The politics that follow from Strauss's thought depend on the interpretation of these Platonic philosophical bases and by analyzing how the problem of fear has been confronted in the works of Plato and Leo Strauss, Walsh offers a direct and thorough account of the politics that emerge from Strauss's esoteric reading of political philosophy. Applying Lacanian psychoanalysis, Walsh investigates the discourse of Straussian esotericism. and examines Plato's writing for examples of exoteric risk, subjecting both Plato and Strauss's writings to Lacan's psychoanalytic technique for interpreting the function of desire in discourse. Given the continuing influence of Strauss's ideas on contemporary politics, particularly within American foreign policy, Walsh's examination of this Straussian esotericism for these effects will prove an interesting read for political theorists, international relations scholars, and philosophers alike.
