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Two "Dunkle Denker": Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli
Ist Teil von
Journal of modern Jewish studies, 2022-10, Vol.21 (4), p.439-455
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The article examines Leo Strauss's controversial and enigmatic Thoughts on Machiavelli against the backdrop of his biography. In order to understand the Thoughts on Machiavelli, it is necessary to reconstruct Strauss's intellectual development since the 1920s. The analysis then focuses on two main questions in Strauss's writings: is it possible to get a full understanding of "exile" in the context of the Jewish and the Western tradition and what does "Radical Enlightenment" mean exactly? Both concepts - "Exile" and "Radical Enlightenment" - need to be analyzed, according to Strauss, in an "exoteric" and an "esoteric" way. The conclusion of the article offers a traditional answer to Strauss's challenge: Athens and Jerusalem are not separate, as Strauss suggests.