Volume 51, Number 16 · October 21, 2004
Leo Strauss: The European
By Mark Lilla
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 1: Die Religionskritik Spinozas und zugehörige Schriften
by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Second edition, 460 pp., ¤44.90
Gesammelte Schriften, ol. 2: Philosophie und Gesetz— Frühe Schriften
by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 635 pp., ¤44.90
Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 3: Hobbes' politische Wissenschaft und zugehörige Schriften—Briefe
by Leo Strauss, edited by Heinrich Meier
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. 799 pp., ¤49.90
Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921–1932)
translated from the Germanand edited by Michael Zank
State University of New YorkPress, 238 pp., $68.50; $22.95 (paper)
Tussen Athene en Jeruzalem: Filosofie, profetie en politiek in het werk van Leo Strauss
by David Janssens
Amsterdam: Boom, 336 pp., ¤27.90
Die Denkbewegung von Leo Strauss: Die Geschichte der Philosophie und die Intentionen des Philosophen
by Heinrich Meier
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 65 pp., ¤9.90 (paper)
Das theologisch-politische Problem: Zum Thema von Leo Strauss
by Heinrich Meier
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 86 pp., ¤9.95 (paper)
Leo Strauss: Une biographie intellectuelle
by Daniel Tanguay
Paris: Grasset, 335 pp., ¤23.00
The year 2003 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Leo Strauss, the influential German-Jewish thinker who spent half his life teaching and writing in the United States. Three superb studies of Strauss's thought were published last year in continental Europe, where his posthumous reputation has grown steadily in recent years. In Germany the first three volumes of his collected works have now appeared, revealing a young Strauss engaged in Zionist polemics and absorbed with what he called the 'theological-political problem.' They also bring him closer to the world of his better-known European contemporaries like Gershom Scholem and Karl Löwith, with whom he maintained a lively correspondence. All this publishing activity has helped to establish Strauss as one of the great minds to have emerged from the rich culture of Weimar.
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