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Leo Strauss' critique of contemporary historicism

Sylvain Kambala Wa Kambala
Strauss sees historicism as what, in some respects, has sadly come to crystallize the sidelining of the transcendent from the reality of human affairs. Convinced that political philosophy is a search for the best political regime or the overcoming of the actuality or the historical-temporal horizon, Strauss categorically rejects this gesture of historicism. Strauss' philosophical gesture is inscribed in the metahistorical and transcendent horizon. The analysis that Sylvain Kambala offers us is a faithful reading of a well-defined selection of Strauss's texts based on his hypothesis of contemporary historicism as a major opponent of political philosophy. This position is explained within the framework of a polarity between the Ancients (Plato and a certain vision of political philosophy) and the Moderns (the abandonment of Platonic philosophy by a whole modernity staged by Strauss as a history of decline). The book is devoted to the presentation and critique of historicism in order to achieve a recovery of the authentic political philosophy advocated by Strauss.
Autor: Kambala Wa Kambala, Sylvain
EAN: 9786204317502
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 84
Produktart: kartoniert, broschiert
Verlag: Our Knowledge Publishing
Schlagworte: Criticism historicism Leo Strauss
Größe: 150 × 220