Strauss Before Straussianism: Reason, Revelation, and Nature

The Review of Politics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 53-74

  Gunnell, John G ^a  

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EID: 84928440591     PISSN: 00346705     EISSN: 17486858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0034670500050208     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Carl Friedrich, “Thomas Hobbes: Myth Builder of the Modern World, ” Journal of Social Philosophy 3 (1938): 25–57.
2. See, for example, Kenneth L. Deutsch and Walter Soffer, eds., The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: A Straussian Perspective (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987); Shadia Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988).
3. See John G. Gunnell, “American Political Science, Liberalism, and the Invention of Political Theory, ” American Political Science Review 82 (1988): 71–87.
4. For a more analytical treatment of these issues based primarily on Strauss's later work, see John G. Gunnell, Political Theory: Tradition and Interpretation (Cambridge, MA.: Winthrop, 1979; University Press of America, 1987). “Political Theory and Politics: The Case of Leo Strauss, ” Political Theory 13 (1985): 339–61.
5. Jacob Klein and Leo Strauss, “A Giving of Accounts, ” The College 25 (1970): 2.
6. Leo Strauss, “Why We Remain Jews: Can Jewish Faith and History still Speak to Us?” Lecture at the Hillel Foundation, Chicago, 1962, p. 3.
7. Leo Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), p. 31.
8. Leo Strauss, Das Erkenntnisproblem in der philosophischen Lehre Fr.H. Jacobis, dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1921. This manuscript, and the possible impact of more than one dimension of the work of both Jacobi and his friend and contemporary J. G. Hamann, deserve more attention than can be rendered here.
9. Frederick Beiser, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1987).
10. Klein and Strauss, “A Giving of Accounts, ” p. 2.
11. Ibid., p. 3.
12. Ibid., p. 1.
13. Ibid., p. 3.
14. Leo Strauss, “An Unspoken Prologue to a Public Lecture at St. John's” Interpretation 7 (1978): 2.
15. Strauss, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, p. 28.
16. Strauss, “An Unspoken Prologue to a Public Lecture at St. John's” p. 2.
17. Klein and Strauss, “A Giving of Accounts, ” p. 3.
18. Leo Strauss, Spinoza's Critique of Religion (New York: Schocken Books, 1965), pp. 9–10.
19. Klein and Strauss, “A Giving of Accounts, ” p. 3.
20. Leo Strauss, Philosophie und Gesetz (Berlin: Schocken, 1935); The Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Its Genesis and Its Basis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936).
21. Strauss, Spinoza's Critique of Religion, p. 1.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., p. 2.
24. Strauss, “Why We Remain Jews: Can Faith and History Still Speak to Us?” p. 3.
25. Strauss, Spinoza's Critique of Religion, p. 3.
26. Ibid., p. 5.
27. Strauss, “Why We Remain Jews: Can Jewish Faith and History Still Speak to Us?” p. 9; “The Problem of Socrates, ” Lecture at St. John's College, Annapolis, 1970, p. 5.
28. Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, pp. 168, 233, 247.
29. Strauss, Spinoza's Critique of Religion, pp. 8–9.
30. Ibid., pp. 9–10.
31. Ibid., p. 15.
32. Ibid., p. 16.
33. Ibid., p. 20.
34. Ibid., p. 29.
35. Ibid., p. 30.
36. Ibid., p. 31.
37. Strauss, Philosophy and Law (New York: Jewish Publication Society, 1987), p. 3.
38. Ibid., pp. 5, 7, 8.
39. Ibid., pp. 13, 16.
40. Ibid., pp. 40–41.
41. Ibid., pp. 50–51.
42. Ibid., p. 55. 44. Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, p. 150.
43. Strauss, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, p. 270.
44. Strauss, Spinoza's Critique of Religion, pp. 8–9, 31.
45. Strauss, Philosophy and Law, p. 112.
46. Ibid.
47. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. and ed. George Schwab (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1976), pp. 27, 29.
48. Ibid., pp. 45, 53.
49. Ibid., p. 78.
50. Leo Strauss, “Comments on Carl Schmitt's Der Begriff des Politischen, “ in Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, p. 89.
51. Ibid., p. 90.
52. Ibid., p. 91.
53. Leo Strauss, letter to Carl Schmitt, in Heinrich Meier, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, und “Der Begriff des Politischen” (Stuttgart: J. B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuch-handlung, 1988), pp. 132–33.
54. Strauss, “Comments on Carl Schmitt's Der Begrijf des Politischen, ” pp. 89, 97.
55. Ibid., pp. 100–101.
56. Ibid., pp. 102–104.
57. Ibid., p. 105.
58. Leo Strauss, letter to Karl Lowith, 10 January 1946, in “Correspondence Concerning Modernity” Independent Journal of Philosophy 4 (1983); 107-108; The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, p. 42.
59. Ibid.
60. Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, p. 140.
61. Klein and Strauss, “A Giving of Accounts, ” p. 4.
62. Leo Strauss, On Tyranny (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1963), pp. 208, 219.
63. Ibid., p. 210.
64. Strauss, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, p. 43.
65. Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, p. 37.
66. Ibid., pp. 32–34.
67. Leo Strauss, letter to Eric Voegelin, 2 January 1950.
68. Strauss, Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, p. 30.
69. Strauss, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, p. 31, 40.
70. Ibid., p. 30, emphasis added.
71. Ibid., p. 28.
72. Ibid., p. 39.
73. Ibid., p. 29.
74. Werner J. Dannhauser, “Leo Strauss: Becoming Naive Again” The American Scholar 44 (1975): 641.