Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

PART 1. Repetition of Antiquity at the Peak of Modernity

1. Primal Truth, Errant Tradition, and Crisis: The Pre-Socratics in Late Modernity

2. “The Unradicality of Modern Philosophy”: Thinking in Correspondence

3. On Caves and Histories: Strauss’s Post-Nietzschean Socratism

PART 2. Exigencies of Freedom and Politics

4. Freedom from the Good: Heidegger’s Idealist Grounding of Politics

5. Heidegger on Nietzsche and the Higher Freedom

6. The Room for Political Philosophy: Strauss on Heidegger’s Political Thought

PART 3. Construction of Modernity

7. On the Roots of Rationalism: Strauss’s Natural Right and History as Response to Heidegger

8. Is Modernity an Unnatural Construct?

9. Strauss on Individuality and Poetry

Epilogue: Dwelling and Exile

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