“The East within Us”: Leo Strauss’s Reinterpretation of Heidegger
Leo Strauss’s grand theme, the theological-political problem, has its basis in the predicament of being a philosopher in a political society. As a Jew and a philosopher, Strauss also faced the entanglement of Judaism and German philosophy culminating in Heidegger’s historicism. These related challen...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-253 |
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Bible
biblical tradition
Martin Heidegger
historicism
quid sit deus
Leo Strauss
theologico-political problem
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Summary: | Leo Strauss’s grand theme, the theological-political problem, has its basis in the predicament of being a philosopher in a political society. As a Jew and a philosopher, Strauss also faced the entanglement of Judaism and German philosophy culminating in Heidegger’s historicism. These related challenges prompted Strauss’s recognition of the first steps for philosophy in a global epoch. Strauss reinterpreted Heidegger’s religious anticipation of a “meeting of East and West” as a philosophical re-encounter with the Bible as “the East within us.” Whereas the Bible challenges the rationality of the philosophical way of life, this “Bible as Eastern” challenges rationalism itself. |
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ISSN: | 1477-285X |
Contains: | In: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1477285X-12341233 |