What Is Political Philosophy? By Leo Strauss. (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press. 1959. Pp. 315. $6.00.)

1961 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Herbert A. Deane
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Free Press

Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-252
Author(s):  
Paul Seaton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Leon Kass ◽  
In The Beginning

Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham, Thomas L. Pangle, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. 263In the beginning was Leo Strauss with his trailblazing Platonizing exegeses of Genesis, “On the Interpretation of Genesis” and “Jerusalem and Athens.” Strauss begat many strong and independent minds who commented on the text. Hillel Fradkin and Robert Sacks were two of the earliest, as was Leon Kass. Kass recently published a hefty commentary on the entirety of Genesis, The Beginning of Wisdom (New York: Free press, 2003).

Leo Strauss and the Concrete Order of Law

Living Law ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 191-236
Author(s):  
Miguel Vatter
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Mosaic Law

This chapter is dedicated to Leo Strauss’s attempt to recover the medieval Islamic and Jewish conceptions of the prophet as a political founder of the perfect legal order. The chapter situates Strauss’s political theology within the Weimar debate between proponents of legality and defenders of an extra-legal conception of legitimacy. It argues that Strauss turns back to the ancient conception of law as nomos in order to give a philosophical foundation to legality beyond Christian conceptions of legitimacy. Christian political theology has always pivoted around the polemical claim that Mosaic law was “tyrannical” in some way. Strauss’s contribution to Jewish political theology consists in examining Jewish and Islamic prophetology by formulating it in terms of the so-called tyrannical teaching of Platonic political philosophy. The chapter shows that Strauss ultimately held to the view of a profound compatibility and mutual need between the traditions of Greek philosophy and biblical prophecy.

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