The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism - Couverture souple

Altman, William H.F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0739147382 ISBN 13 : 9780739147382

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Altman William HF

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Leo Strauss's connection with Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt suggests a troubling proximity to National Socialism but a serious critique of Strauss must begin with F. H. Jacobi. While writing his dissertation on this apparently Christian opponent of the Enlightenment, Strauss discovered the tactical principles that would characterize his lifework: writing between the lines, a faith-based critique of rationalism, the deliberate secularization of religious language for irreligious purposes, and an "all or nothing" antagonism to middling solutions. Especially the latter is distinctive of his Zionist writings in the 1920s where Strauss engaged in an ongoing polemic against Cultural Zionism, attacking it first from an orthodox, and then from an atheist's perspective. In his last Zionist article (1929), Strauss mentions "the Machiavellian Zionism of a Nordau that would not fear to use the traditional hope for a Messiah as dynamite." By the time of his "change of orientation," National Socialism was being led by a nihilistic "Messiah" while Strauss had already radicalized Schmitt's "political theology" and Heidegger's deconstruction of the ontological Tradition.

Biographie de l'auteur :

William H. F. Altman teaches Latin and World History at E. C. Glass, a public high school in Lynchburg, Virginia.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0739147382
• ISBN 13: 9780739147382
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 618