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30.01.2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Review of Two Books

verfasst von: Steven B. Smith

Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 1/2023

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Neil G. Robertson, Leo Strauss: An Introduction

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Fußnoten
1
For two useful commentaries, see Smith (2006), 87–107; and Ferrari (1997).
 
2
Other works that fall into this genre include Smith (2006); Tanguay (2007); Janssens (2008); and Pelluchon (2014).
 
3
One of the few historians to appreciate this is Momigliano (1994), pp. 178–189.
 
4
For a partial biography that takes Strauss’s life only up to 1948, see Sheppard (2006); although Tanguay (2007) subtitles his book “An Intellectual Biography,” there is little biographical about it.
 
5
The importance of Alfarabi has been emphasized especially by Brague (1998); see more recently, Namazi (2022).
 
6
I have discussed this in Smith (2017).
 
7
For a useful exploration of this theme, see Griswold (1988).
 
8
The term is a riff on Lincoln’s “Crisis of the House Divided” speech.
 
9
The phrase attributed to Julian is Vicisti, Galilee; the version quoted here is from Swinburn’s poem “Hymn to Proserpine.”
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Review of Two Books
verfasst von
Steven B. Smith
Publikationsdatum
30.01.2023
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Society / Ausgabe 1/2023
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00810-7

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