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Modern time-consciousness: philosophy and politics of history - Leo Strauss on history and truth in the relation of theory and praxis.
This project aims to analyze the political philosophy of the German-American philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973) in the context of modern debates concerning history, time-consciousness, and the relation between theory and praxis. The project will include both a systematic and a historical dimension in the fields of political philosophy and philosophy of history.
The first part of the project will clarify a set of problems centering on the relation of philosophy and politics in the post-Hegelian situation of a pervasive historial consciousness. The second part will investigate the thought of Leo Strauss as an attempt to give answers to these problems.
The issues at stake include some of the most pressing problems for philosophical reflection on politics, such as historical relativism and the status of truth in the relationship between philosophy and politics. The work of Strauss faces these problems in highly relevant and still unappreciated ways. Simultaneously, these issues and Strauss's approach to them provide the key to a fuller understanding of Strauss's not easily accessible work. By offering a perspective that is at thispoint not available, this project will productively contribute to current scholarship on Strauss, while always bearing in mind the systematic import of his work.
The first part of the project will clarify a set of problems centering on the relation of philosophy and politics in the post-Hegelian situation of a pervasive historial consciousness. The second part will investigate the thought of Leo Strauss as an attempt to give answers to these problems.
The issues at stake include some of the most pressing problems for philosophical reflection on politics, such as historical relativism and the status of truth in the relationship between philosophy and politics. The work of Strauss faces these problems in highly relevant and still unappreciated ways. Simultaneously, these issues and Strauss's approach to them provide the key to a fuller understanding of Strauss's not easily accessible work. By offering a perspective that is at thispoint not available, this project will productively contribute to current scholarship on Strauss, while always bearing in mind the systematic import of his work.
Date:1 Oct 2009 → 28 May 2020
Keywords:Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin heidegger, Ohilosophy of history, Leo Strauss, Political philosophy
Disciplines:Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified, Theory and methodology of philosophy, Philosophy, Ethics
Project type:PhD project