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Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy, 1 (Hardcover)
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Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy, 1 (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medieval Political Thought
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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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