Modernity and What Has Been Lost. Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss

Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, Paweł Armada

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. Modernity and What Has Been Lost. Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss. Red. Górnisiewicz, Arkadiusz; Armada, Paweł . Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2010, 171 s. ISBN 978-83-233-2965-7

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The title of this volume appears to suggest that modernity is somehow devoid of something of utmost importance. Sixteen years after the death of Leo Strauss, certainly one of the most profound thinkers in the twent...

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-233-2965-7

DOI:

Wydawnictwo:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Rok wydania:

2010

Liczba stron:

171

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Editors' Introduction - The Question of Modernity Meets the Question of Leo Strauss3
Heinrich Meier, Why Leo Strauss? Four Answers and One Consideration concerning the Uses and Disadvantages of the School for the Philosophical Life15
Daniel Tanguay, Leo Strauss and the Contemporary Return to Political Philosophy28
Nathan Tarcov, Philosophy as the Right Way of Life in Natural Right and History38
David Janssens, The Philosopher?s Ancient Clothes: Leo Strauss on Philosophy and Poetry48
Paweł Armada, Leo Strauss as Erzieher: The Defense of the Philosophical Life or the Defense of Life against Philosophy?67
Jürgen Gebhardt, Modern Challenges - Platonic Responses: Strauss, Arendt, Voegelin77
Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, Karl Löwith and Leo Strauss on Modernity, Secularization, and Nihilism87
Emmanuel Patard, Remarks on the Strauss-Kojeve Dialogue and its Presuppositions104
Piotr Nowak, Carl Schmitt and his Critic117
Till Kinzel, Postmodernism and the Art of Writing: The Importance of Leo Strauss, for the 21st Century127
Laurence Lampert, Leo Strauss's Gynaikologia138
Contributors163
Name Index165
Subject Index168

ModernityandWhatHasBeenLost

ifnottosayauthoritativeinstruction.AnintensiveconfrontationwithStrauss’s

thought,thequestionimplies,couldhardlygrowsolelyoutofanencounterwith

hisbooks.Membersofaschoolarealltooinclinedtoregardasindispensable

whatforthemwasofspecialsigniﬁcance,andthustoovervaluepersonalcon-

tact,theteacher’sexample,theoraltradition,inaword:everythingtowhich

theschoolgivesrise,everythingitpreservesandpasseson.Thismayexplainin

largepartthefact,whichseemsatﬁrstglancetobeparadoxical,thatintheorbit

oftheschoolpreciselythebooksoftheteacherarenotbelievedtobecapableof

achievingwhatisascribedtothebooksofotherphilosophers–providedtheyare

greatphilosophersandprovidedtheyaregreatbooks:theabilitytowinover,on

theirownmerits,unknownreadersinanunknownplaceinanunknownfuture,

tochallengethemseriously,toteachthemtoread,tomovethemtothink,and,in

thebestcase,toleadthemtothephilosophicallife.

Theinstitutionoftheschoolplaysanimportantroleinthehistoryofphi-

losophy,andthequarreloverStrausswehavebeenwitnessingsince2003would

notevenexistwithouttheschool.ThusIshallreturntotheschoollater.But

ﬁrstIleaveitbehindinordertoanswerwithoutfurtheradothequestionofwhy

IstudyStrauss.Well,forthesamereasonsIstudyotherphilosophers:Toenter

intoadialogueaboutthemostimportantquestionsthatmoveus.Togainclarity

onthefundamentalalternativesofhumanexistence.Toexplorethepossibilities

thatphilosophyholdsinstoreforthinkingthewhole.Tofurthermyknowledge

ofmyself.IdidnotknowStrausspersonally.Iwasneverthestudentofoneof

hisstudents.Iwasnevertoldbyanyonetostudyhiswritings.Ireadhisbooks

asIreadthebooksofRousseauorPlato,NietzscheorLucretius.ThoughIsoon

cametoreadtheseauthorsdifferentlythanIhadreadthembefore.Theconfron-

tationwithStraussgavemeanewaccesstothem.Throughnothingandnoone

haveIlearnedtoreadbetter,moreattentively,morefruitfullythanthroughread-

ingStrauss.

Insayingthat,Ihavealreadyarrivedatmyanswertothequestion"WhyLeo

Strauss?”intheprecisesense.Namely,theanswertothequestionofwhatdistin-

guishesStrauss,whatishisspecialplaceinthehistoryofphilosophy,whatorigi-

nalinsightheholdsinstore,whatistobefoundinhim,orwhatdisclosesitselfto

usmoreeasilyinhimthatotherwisewouldbedifﬁculttoﬁnd.Ishallunfoldmy

answerintofouranswers,whichintheendyoumayputtogetherintooneanswer.

Firstanswer:LeoStraussopensupanewhistoricalandadifferentphilo-

sophicalaccesstothehistoryofphilosophy.Thecausethatmorethananything

elsewaslongassociatedwiththenameLeoStrausswastheexoteric-esotericart

ofwriting.Thediscoveryofthewayinwhichphilosopherscommunicateddiffer-

entthingstodifferentaddresseesoftheirwritingsandgavethemdifferentthings

tothinkaboutovermorethantwomillenniaisoffundamentalsigniﬁcancefor

theproperunderstandingofthehistoryofphilosophy.Itmakesonefullyaware

ofafactthathadfallenincreasinglyintooblivionaftertheFrenchRevolution,

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