Reading Strauss from the Start

On the Heideggerian Origins of ‘Political Philosophy

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ID6260413
AuthorsRodrigo Chacón (0000-0002-8735-7445, Boston College, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume9
Issue3
Pages287-307
Publication date2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1474885110363982
OpenAlexW2168048146
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited13

It has often been noted that Leo Strauss developed his understanding of political philosophy through a critical engagement with Heidegger. Yet most analyses focus on Strauss’s American works while neglecting his earlier response during the crisis years of the Weimar Republic. The article seeks to overcome this limitation by ‘deconstructing’ Strauss’s American definitions of political philosophy in light of both his Weimar understanding of politische Wissenschaft and his 1922 discovery of Heidegger’s Aristotle. I argue that Strauss’s conception of political philosophy originated in Heidegger’s subversion of the traditional distinction between theory and praxis. I thus propose a way to read Strauss from the start following his own changing views of that distinction

Critical theory · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Humanities · Levi strauss · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Reading (process · Subversion · Weimar Republic · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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