Leo Strauss Livres

Introduction / Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Marc de Launay, Gérald Sfez -- "Si je me bats seulement pour moi, que suis-je?"--Leo Strauss et l'élection des juifs, par Bruno Karsenti -- L'antériorité de la Loi et la difficulté du retour, par Gérald Sfez -- Ce siècle où Dieu mourait. L'idéal de la civilisation moderne à l'épreuve de l'hitlérisme. Étude sur Leo Strauss et Emmanuel Levinas, par Danielle Cohen-Levinas -- Livre juif ou livre grec? Sur Genèse 1, par Marc de Launay -- La lecture straussienne du codage du Guide des perplexes de Maïmonide. Secrets et contradictions, par Géraldine Roux -- La thèse de Leo Strauss sur Jacobi, par Heinz Wismann -- Strauss et Schmitt dans "l'étau théologico-politique" : le judaïsme, la neutralité libérale et la mort du Léviathan, par Jean-Claude Monod -- Inédit. Leo Strauss, La situation religieuse actuelle, traduit par Marc de Launay

The seminar focuses on Socrates' dialogue with the sophist Protagoras, exploring themes such as the nature of virtue, the distinction between Socratic and Sophistic political arts, and the interplay of knowledge and ethics. Strauss examines the teachability of virtue and its connections to courage, justice, and wisdom, while also addressing the complexities of rhetoric and the significance of myth. This insightful analysis, edited by Robert Bartlett, highlights Strauss's Platonist perspective and his deep engagement with key philosophical questions surrounding how one ought to live.

"Leo Strauss's The Political Philosophy of Hobbes deservedly ranks among his most widely acclaimed works. In it Strauss argues that the basis for Hobbes's natural and political science is his interest in "self-knowledge of man as he really is." The writings collected in this book, each written prior to that classic volume, complement that account. Thus at long last, this book allows us to have a complete picture of Strauss's interpretation of Hobbes, the thinker pivotal to the fundamental theme of his life's work: the conflicting demands of philosophy and revelation, or as he termed it, "the theologico-political problem." It is no exaggeration to say that Strauss's work on Hobbes's critique of religion is essential to his analysis of Hobbes's political philosophy, and vice versa. This volume will spark new interest in Hobbes's explication of the Bible and in his understanding of religion by revealing previously neglected dimensions and motives of Hobbes's "theology." At the same time, scholars interested in the intellectual development of Leo Strauss will find in these writings the missing link, as it were, between his two early books, Spinoza's Critique of Religion and The Political Philosophy of Hobbes. In addition, this volume makes available for the first time in English a letter, a book outline, an extended review, an engagement with legal positivism, and an account of Strauss's work on Hobbes by Heinrich Meier, all of which shed light on Strauss's concerns and his approach to Hobbes in particular, as well as to modern political thought and life."--Publisher description

Relying exclusively on the texts, Professor Strauss analyzes and compares every seemingly casual utterance as well as the more formal statements to recover the true Socrates and to determine the character of political philosophy. He investigates its origins, possibilities, and intention against the nonphilosophical background from which it emerged.

The book delves into the challenges faced by Jews and Judaism in the context of modernity, examining the dilemmas that arise from contemporary life. It offers a thorough analysis of these issues and proposes solutions aimed at addressing the unique struggles within the Jewish community. Through this exploration, it seeks to illuminate the ongoing relevance of Jewish identity and beliefs in a rapidly changing world.

Preeminent music theorist and leader in the study of music and disability Joseph Straus presents a truly groundbreaking take on musical modernism--demonstrating in an expansive and vivid multimedia presentation that modernist music is inextricably entwined with attitudes toward disability. In Broken Beauty, Straus argues that the most characteristic features of musical modernism--fractured forms, immobilized harmonies, conflicting textural layers, radical simplification of means in some cases, and radical complexity and hermeticism in others--can be understood as musical depictions of disability conditions, including deformity/disfigurement, mobility impairment, madness, idiocy, and autism. Against the traditional medical model of disability, which sees it as a bodily defect requiring diagnosis and normalization or cure, this new sociocultural model of disability sees it as cultural artifact, something that is created by and creates culture. Straus places this revised model of disability against a wide range of canonical, high-art concert music from the first decades of the century through the 1950s. Broken Beauty illustrates how disability is right at the core of musical modernism; it is one of the things that musical modernism is fundamentally about [Publisher description]

This book investigates the important role twelve-tone composition has played in American music from 1927 to the present day.