Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)
Born in rural Hesse, Germany, Leo Strauss (1899-1973) became an active Zionist and philosopher during the tumultuous and fractious Weimar Republic. As Eugene R. Sheppard demonstrates in this groundbreaking and engaging book, Strauss gravitated towards such thinkers as Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt as he sought to identify and overcome fundamental philosophical, political, and theological crises. The rise of Nazism impelled Strauss as a young Jewish emigre, first in Europe
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