Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt

✍ Scribed by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 312
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I. Leo Strauss and the Problem of “The Intellectual”
Chapter 1. Moderns and Medievals
Chapter 2. The Exoteric Writing Thesis
Chapter 3. Natural Right and Tyranny
Part II. The Dog at the End of the Verse: Emmanuel Levinas Between Ethics and Engagement
Chapter 4. Growth of a Moralist
Chapter 5. Resisting Engagement
Chapter 6. Witnessing
Part III. Against Speechless Wonder: Hannah Arendt on Philosophers and Intellectuals
Chapter 7. Arendt’s Weimar Origins
Chapter 8. From the Camps to Galileo
Chapter 9. One More Strange Island
Part IV. A Missed Conversation
Chapter 10. Toward a Jewish Socrates?
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

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