Summary Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution. This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings...(展开全部)

Summary Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution. This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings...(展开全部)

Leo Strauss and his alleged political influence regarding the Iraq War have in recent years been the subject of significant media attention, including stories in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Time magazine even called him “one of the most influential men in American politics.” With The Truth about Leo Strauss, Michael and Catherine Zuckert challenged the many claim...(展开全部)

Leo Strauss and his alleged political influence regarding the Iraq War have in recent years been the subject of significant media attention, including stories in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Time magazine even called him “one of the most influential men in American politics.” With The Truth about Leo Strauss, Michael and Catherine Zuckert challenged the many claim...(展开全部)

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from co...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德 Shlomo Sand ，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，曾任教于法国社会科学高等研究院。1946年出生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年时生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。1982年获得法国社会科学高等研究院博士学 位，致力于民族 与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等研究领域。其著作《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列地》《我为何放弃做犹太人》被称为“虚构三部曲”，在以色列和西方学界引起轰动与争议。 另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯事件到海湾战争》（Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War）、《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》（The Words and the Land: Israeli In...(展开全部)

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from co...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德 Shlomo Sand ，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，曾任教于法国社会科学高等研究院。1946年出生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年时生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。1982年获得法国社会科学高等研究院博士学 位，致力于民族 与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等研究领域。其著作《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列地》《我为何放弃做犹太人》被称为“虚构三部曲”，在以色列和西方学界引起轰动与争议。 另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯事件到海湾战争》（Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War）、《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》（The Words and the Land: Israeli In...(展开全部)

Craig and MacDonald have given an impressive defense of Hegel and of modern life. In particular, they respond to Leo Strauss's critique of Hegel and his preference for ancient political thought, demonstrating that Hegel properly understood many of the concerns that underlie Strauss's turn to the ancients. With great detail and subtlety, the authors show the extent to which Stra...(展开全部)

“Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the greatest mind in political philosophy in the twentieth century, and possibly in other centuries as well. That, I am well aware, is a judgment I share with very few, if any.” So writes Harry V. Jaffa in his epilogue to this volume, Crisis of the Strauss Divided, including an extensive unpublished essay entitled “Straussian Geography: A Memoir and...(展开全部)