
Richard Velkley
Author
Richard VelkleyPublisher
University of Chicago PressEdition 1
Title and Author
Heidegger, Strauss, and the premises of philosophy on original forgetting / Richard VelkleyPublication Details
شیکاگو : University of Chicago Press، 2011مPhysical Description
viii, 203 p.; 24 cm.Subject
Strauss, LeoLanguage
انگلیسیNotes
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]561[-791( and index.Contents
Repetition of antiquity at the peak of modernity - Primal truth, errant tradition, and crisis: the pre - Socratics in late modernity - "The unradicality of modern philosophy": thinking in correspondence - On caves and histories: Strauss's post - Nietzschean Socratism - Exigencies of freedom and politics - Freedom from the good: Heidegger's idealist grounding of politics - Heidegger on Nietzsche and the higher freedom - The room for political philosophy: Strauss on Heidegger's political thought - Construction of modernity - On the roots of rationalism: Strauss's natural right and history as response to Heidegger - Is modernity an unnatural construct? - Strauss on individuality and poetry - Epilogue: dwelling and exile