Abstract
This special symposium issue includes twelve diverse essays about Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, the new book in which Arthur Melzer provides the most thorough, precise, coherent, and crisp account available of how and why Western philosophers (until the last few centuries) regularly refrained from laying all of their cards on the table. Although the participants vary in the enthusiasm they display for Melzer—and for Leo Strauss, whose legacy Melzer is helping to explain and evaluate—they all engage thoughtfully, constructively, and quite imaginatively with Melzer's pioneering contributions. In the aftermath of the Iraq War, furthermore, Strauss criticism has regularly displayed an array of academic and journalistic degradations that this symposium should help us move beyond.
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