Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schaefer, David Lewis

Titel

Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings/Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

Ist Teil von

• Theological Studies, 2014, Vol.75 (2), p.444

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Sage Publications Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (By contrast, the modem philosophers who practiced esoteric writing did so only to protect themselves from persecution under nonliberal political regimes, and thus made it easier for members of the public to decipher their real thoughts.) Green, author of a previous book on the "return to Maimonides" in Strauss's work as well as editor of a collection of Strauss's essays on modem Jewish thought, has performed an enormous service for scholars of both theology and philosophy by publishing the two books under review here. The volume also includes an 87-page editor's introduction, surveying the readings and culminating in the suggestion that Strauss shared with Maimonides the belief that while the tension between reason and revelation could never be entirely obliterated, their "common search for the one truth" might bring them "ever closer to this noble goal" (87). Besides highly useful annotations of Strauss's writings, G. adds helpful bibliographic information at the end.