Heidegger, Strauss, and the premises of philosophy on original forgetting /

• Main Author: Velkley, Richard L. (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011.
• Subjects: Strauss, Leo; Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976; Φιλοσοφία, Γερμανική; Πολιτική επιστήμη > Φιλοσοφία > Ιστορία; Οντολογία > Ιστορία

Table of 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.