Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s

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Introduction Martin D. Yaffe and Richard S. Ruderman 1. How Strauss Became Strauss Heinrich Meier 2. Spinoza's Critique of Religion: Reading Too Literally and Not Reading Literally Enough Steven Frank 3. The Light Shed on the Crucial Development of Strauss's Thought by his Correspondence with Gerhard Kruger Thomas L. Pangle 4. Strauss on Hermann Cohen's 'Idealizing' Appropriation of Maimonides as a Platonist Martin D. Yaffe 5. Strauss on the Religious and Intellectual Situation of the Present Timothy W. Burns 6. Carl Schmitt and Strauss's Return to Pre-Modern Philosophy Nasser Behnegar 7. Strauss, Hobbes, and the Origins of Natural Science Timothy W. Burns 8. Strauss on Farabi, Maimonides, et al. in the 1930s Joshua Parens 9. The Problem of the Enlightenment: Strauss, Jacobi, and the Pantheism Controversy David Janssens 10. 'Through the Keyhole': Strauss's Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon's Constitution of the Lacedaemonians Richard S. Ruderman 11. Strauss and Schleiermacher on How to Read Plato: An Introduction to 'Exoteric Teaching' Hannes Kerber Appendix: Seven Writings by Leo Strauss A. 'Conspectivism' (1929) Translated by Anna Schmidt and Martin D. Yaffe B. 'Religious Situation of the Present' (1930) Translated by Anna Schmidt and Martin D. Yaffe C. 'The Intellectual Situation of the Present' (1932) Translated by Anna Schmidt and Martin D. Yaffe D. 'A Lost Writing of Farabi's' (1936) Translated by Gabriel Bartlett and Martin D. Yaffe E. 'On Abravanel's Critique of Monarchy' (1937) Translated by Martin D. Yaffe F. 'Exoteric Teaching' (1939) Edited by Hannes Kerber G. Lecture Notes for 'Persecution and the Art of Writing' (1939) Edited by Hannes Kerber