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Book, 2006
Current format, Book, 2006, 1st ed, No Longer Available.
Book, 2006
Current format, Book, 2006, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
From the publisher's description: "This is the first study to frame Strauss's political philosophy around his critique of liberalism and the problem of exile. Sheppard follows Strauss from Europe to the United States, a journey of a conservative Weimar Jew struggling with modern liberalism and the existential and political contours of exile. Strauss sought to resolve the conflicts of a Jew unwilling to surrender loyalty to his ancestral community and equally unwilling to adhere to the strictures of orthodox observance. Strauss saw truth and wisdom as transcending particular religious and national communities, as well as the modern enlightened humanism in which he himself had been nurtured. In his efforts to navigate between the Jewish and the philosophical, the ancient and the modern, Berlin and New York, Strauss developed a distinctively programmatic way of reading and writing 'between the lines.' Sheppard recaptures the complexity and intrigue of this project which has been ignored by those who both reject and claim Strauss's legacy."
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