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Strauss's recovery of exotericism -- Exotericism exposed: letters to Jacob Klein -- Exotericism embraced: "the law of reason in the Kuzari" -- The Socratic Enlightenment -- The peculiarly Socratic philosophizing: Xenophon's Gynaikologia -- Socrates, the real real man: Xenophon's Andrologia -- Platonic political philosophy: "ministerial poetry" -- Extending the history of philosophy back to Homer: Seth Benardete's Odyssey -- The modern Enlightenment -- Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of orthodoxy: the introduction to Philosophy and law -- Attacking the Enlightenment on behalf of Socrates: "what is political philosophy?" -- Advancing the Enlightenment: Strauss's recovery of Nietzsche's theological-political program -- Epilogue: Strauss's farewell.;Lampert separates what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school to focuse on exotericism: the use of artful rhetoric to simultaneously communicate a socially responsible message to the public at large and a more radical message of philosophic truth to a smaller, more intellectually inclined audience. Largely forgotten after the Enlightenment, exotericism deeply informed Strau

Who reads The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss?

Author

Laurence Lampert

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226039480

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, History

Rating

4.57 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14