This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss´s thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss´s previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss´s mature work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor´s Introduction Part One The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Rationalism 1. Social Science and Humanism 2. "Relativism" 3. An Introduction to Heideggerian Existentialism Part Two Classical Political Rationalism 4. On Classical Political Philosophy 5. Exoteric Teaching 6. Thucydides: The Meaning of Political History 7. The Problem of Socrates: Five Lectures Part Three The Dialogue between Reason and Revelation 8. On the Euthyphron 9. How to Begin to Study Medieval Philosophy 10. Progress of Return? Notes Bibliography Index