Steven B. Smith (Books)

Steven B. Smith Books

Steven B. Smith delves into the history of political philosophy and the role of statecraft in constitutional government. His work engages with foundational ideas and their impact on modern political thought. Smith explores the intersections of philosophy, liberalism, and identity. His approach offers profound insights into complex debates surrounding governance and society.

The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

326 pages
12 hours of reading

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Leo Strauss was a central figure in the 20th century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss’s work. These include his revival of the great “quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,” his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss’s complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of “Straussian” political philosophy.