Leo Strauss and the recovery of medieval political philosophy

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Leo Strauss and the recovery of medieval political philosophy

Joshua Parens

(Rochester studies in medieval political thought / edited by Douglas Kries, Joshua Parens)

University of Rochester Press, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy. Strauss recovered that great tradition of thought largely lost to the West by beginning his study of classical thought with its teaching on politics rather than its metaphysics. What brought Strauss to this way of reading the classics, however, was a discovery he made as a young political scientist studying the obscure texts of Islamic and Jewish medieval political thought. In this volume, Joshua Parens examines Strauss's investigations of medieval political philosophy, offering interpretations of his writings on the great thinkers of that tradition, including interpretations of his most difficult writings on Alfarabi and Maimonides. In addition Parens explicates Strauss's statements on Christian medieval thought and his argument for rejecting the Scholastic paradigm as a method for interpreting Islamic and Jewish thought. Contrasting Scholasticism with Islamic and Jewish medieval political philosophy, Parens clarifies the theme of Strauss's thought, what Strauss calls the "theologico-political problem," and reveals the significance of medieval political philosophy in the Western tradition. Joshua Parens is professor of philosophy and politics and dean of the Braniff Graduate School at the University of Dallas.

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Foreword by Douglas Kries Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction The Comprehensiveness of Political Philosophy in Alfarabi and Maimonides Law, Prophecy, and Philosopher as King and Outcast Vipers, Weeds, and Disorder in the Whole Escaping the Scholastic Paradigm Spinoza's Scholasticism and Alfarabi's Platonism The Differing Places of Metaphysics in Alfarabi and Thomas Aquinas From Political Philosophy to Enlightened Kalam: The 1930s and 1940s Maimonides's Secretiveness about Political Philosophy: The 1950s Theoretical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Happiness Maimonides's Guide as a Work of Political Philosophy Da capo: An Introduction to the Guide Appendix: A Critique of Pines's "Limitations" Article Notes Bibliography Index

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