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In <i>Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides</i>, Kenneth Hart Green explores the critical role played by Maimonides in shaping Leo Strauss's thought. In uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides's <i>Guide of the Perplexed</i>, Strauss made the radical realization that other ancient and medieval philosophers might be concealing their true thoughts through literary artifice. Maimonides and al-Farabi, he saw, allowed their message to be altered by dogmatic considerations onl
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- Author
- Kenneth Hart Green
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226307039
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Judaism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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