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Overview"What is philosophy and who is the philosopher? What should be the relationship between the philosopher and the city? And what should be the attitude that the philosopher must have with respect to tradition, religion and politics? These questions, which have spanned the entire history of Western philosophical thought, from ancient Greece onwards, found original answers in one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century culture, Leo Strauss. Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom, thanks to a scrupulous study of his entire bibliography, represents the first truly comprehensive and complete intellectual biography of Strauss. The reader will find in these pages a Strauss who is not an American neoconservative theorist nor an orthodox Jew, but rather an original reader and interpreter of classical authors: from Thucydides and Plato to Machiavelli and Hobbes. Carlo Altini presents us with a philosopher who escapes any attempt at classification, who lived constantly in exile between theory and practice, philosophy and politics, immanence and transcendence, and who considered philosophy the most important critical exercise of human reason, always ""out of date"" and always ""out of place.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carlo AltiniPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438490069ISBN 10: 1438490062 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 02 March 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Marburg and Freiburg (1899–1924) 2. Berlin (1925–1932) 3. Paris (1932–1933) 4. London and Cambridge (1934–1937) 5. New York (1937–1948) 6. Chicago (1949–1967) 7. Claremont and Annapolis (1968–1973) Notes Bibliography Leo Strauss’s Writings Correspondences Critical Literature IndexReviews"""This exciting read is the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Strauss of which I am aware, covering both his early and mature work. It tells a fascinating story from a novel perspective, based on a vast range of sources in various languages, including archival ones."" — Rodrigo Chacón, Professor of International Relations, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México" This exciting read is the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Strauss of which I am aware, covering both his early and mature work. It tells a fascinating story from a novel perspective, based on a vast range of sources in various languages, including archival ones. - Rodrigo Chacon, Professor of International Relations, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico """Altini has artfully crafted an intellectual biography that avoids reducing its subject to a mere historical context … Highly recommended."" — CHOICE ""This exciting read is the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Strauss of which I am aware, covering both his early and mature work. It tells a fascinating story from a novel perspective, based on a vast range of sources in various languages, including archival ones."" — Rodrigo Chacón, Professor of International Relations, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México" Author InformationCarlo Altini is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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