Download Reading Between the Lines: Leo Strauss and the History of by Winfried Schröder PDF

By Winfried Schröder

Philosophical texts of the early smooth period during which sanctions have been imposed on those that entertained deviating perspectives require a selected hermeneutical procedure: in accordance with Leo Strauss the interpreter's job is to discover their 'esoteric' messages. The contributions either tackle the methodological difficulties of Strauss' hermeneutics and talk about paradigmatic instances of applicants for a 'reading among the lines': Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle.

Show description

Read Online or Download Reading Between the Lines: Leo Strauss and the History of Early Modern Philosophy PDF

Similar history & surveys books

Kant: The Arguments of Philosophers

First released in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.

Überlegungen XII-XV (Schwarze Hefte 1939-1941)

Die von Heidegger sogenannten Schwarzen Hefte bilden ein in der deutschen Geistesgeschichte nicht nur des letzten Jahrhunderts einzigartiges Manuskript. Von 1931 bis zum Anfang der siebziger Jahre zeichnet Heidegger in vierunddreissig Wachstuchheften Gedanken und Gedankengef|ge auf. Zuweilen - wie in den Überlegungen (GA 94-96) der dreissiger Jahre - stellen sie eine unmittelbare Auseinandersetzung mit der Zeit dar.

A Mind and its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin's Political Thought

A brain and its Time bargains the main distinct account to this point of the genesis and improvement of Isaiah Berlin's political proposal, philosophical perspectives, and ancient knowing. Drawing on either little-known released fabric and archival resources, it locates Berlin's evolving highbrow pursuits and political positions within the context of the occasions and tendencies of interwar and post-war highbrow and political lifestyles.

Extra resources for Reading Between the Lines: Leo Strauss and the History of Early Modern Philosophy

Example text

New Essays on Leibniz’s Theodicy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 233 – 44. Israel, Jonathan, Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014c. Israel, Jonathan, ‘‘An Answer to Four Critics” [Section replying to J. K. Wright], in: H-France forum. Vol. 9 (2015), Issue 1, no. 5, pp. 77 – 97. Lagrée, Jacqueline, Spinoza et le débat religieux, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

42 Adrian Blau life”⁶⁶. But Strauss’s “assumptions” are really “hypotheses” or “claims”, and Drury’s insight would damage Strauss even more if she adds that he tests his claims inadequately. He is more like a lawyer making the case for his client than a judge trying to see both sides. 7 The irrelevance of hermeneutics Most readers will have been treating this chapter as a critique of Straussian interpretation. As may now be clear, it is also a critique of critiques of Straussian interpretation.

See Stegmüller, Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and History of Philosophy: Volume , p.  for similar criticisms.  e. g. Gadamer, Truth and Method, pp. xx–xiii. , pp. xvii–xix.  e. g. Grondin, Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics, pp. , “Understanding as Dialogue: Gadamer”, pp.  – ; Taylor, “Gadamer on the Human Sciences, pp.  – ; Grondin, The Philosophy of Gadamer, pp.  – ; Sherratt, Continental Philosophy of Social Science: Hermeneutics, Genealogy and Critical Theory from Ancient Greece to the Twenty-First Century, pp.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.19 of 5 – based on 32 votes