Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy - 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 Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy write by Winfried Schröder. This book was released on 2015-11-13. Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its publication in 1952, Leo Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing has stirred considerable controversy, particularly among historians concerned with early modern philosophy. On the one hand, several scholars share his view that it would be inadequate to generally take at face value the explicit message of texts which were composed in an era in which severe sanctions were imposed on those who entertained deviating views. ‘Reading between the lines’ therefore seems to be the appropriate hermeneutical approach. On the other hand, the risks of such an interpretative maxim are more than obvious, as it might come up to an unlimited license to ascribe heterodox doctrines to early modern philosophers whose manifest teachings were in harmony with the orthodox positions of their time. The conributions to this volume both address these methodological issues and discuss paradigmatic cases of authors who might indeed be candidates for a Straussian ‘reading between the lines’: Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle.
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
Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought
Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought - 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 Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought write by Jeffrey A. Bernstein. This book was released on 2021-06. Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seeks to broaden the horizons of Strauss' thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with home little or no dialogue has yet occurred.
Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile
Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile - 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 Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile write by Eugene Sheppard. This book was released on 2007-01-31. Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A probing study that demystifies the common portrayal of Leo Strauss as the inspiration for American neo-conservativism by tracing his philosophy to its German Jewish roots.
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom - 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 as Stranger Wisdom write by Carlo Altini. This book was released on 2022-09-01. Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is philosophy and who is the philosopher? What should be the relationship between the philosopher and the city? And what should be the attitude that the philosopher must have with respect to tradition, religion and politics? These questions, which have spanned the entire history of Western philosophical thought, from ancient Greece onwards, found original answers in one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century culture, Leo Strauss. Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom, thanks to a scrupulous study of his entire bibliography, represents the first truly comprehensive and complete intellectual biography of Strauss. The reader will find in these pages a Strauss who is not an American neoconservative theorist nor an orthodox Jew, but rather an original reader and interpreter of classical authors: from Thucydides and Plato to Machiavelli and Hobbes. Carlo Altini presents us with a philosopher who escapes any attempt at classification, who lived constantly in exile between theory and practice, philosophy and politics, immanence and transcendence, and who considered philosophy the most important critical exercise of human reason, always "out of date" and always "out of place."
