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“In brilliant fashion Velkley lays out a reading of Heidegger and Strauss that acknowledges the centrality of this neglected conversation to contemporary political thinking. Moreover, he makes a case for attending to the dynamics of this conversation as a radical questioning concerning the origins of the human situation within the ‘cave’ of political life. Yet Velkley also understands that this questioning is inseparable from our openness to the enigmatic whole of our ontological situation that goes beyond politics. Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy offers a fresh, bold approach to timely philosophical questions and does so with equanimity and grace.”
(Charles Bambach, University of Texas, Dallas)“In this clearly written and compelling study, Velkley not only concisely clarifies Leo Strauss’s philosophical relation to Heidegger, but also enacts the critical philosophy that Strauss sought to revive. In elucidating Strauss’s conception of the aporia of ancient philosophy, Velkley offers a graceful and nuanced account of Strauss’s skeptical attempt to overcome historicism and to do justice to the particularity of the philosopher’s quest for the universal. As such, this is an important book for anyone interested in the scope and meaning of modern philosophy.”
“In Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy, Velkley analyzes the crisis of Western philosophical traditions in the twentieth century and the different ways in which, in their epoch-making works, Heidegger and Strauss grappled with it. In this penetrating study, Velkley offers an original perspective on both Heidegger’s critique of tradition and Strauss’s assessment of that critique. He examines Heidegger’s aim to renew the fundamental question of Being and, in light of its ancient Greek origins, to wrest it from the grip of later intellectual traditions, and he reevaluates the widely held opinion that Strauss’s concern for political philosophy entailed a turn away from such metaphysical questions. Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy provides profound insight into two seminal thinkers as well as the problematic relation between philosophy and political thought in our contemporary world.”
(Jeffrey Andrew Barash, University of Picardie)“Velkley has succeeded in writing a remarkable study about the intellectual impact of one of the master thinkers of the twentieth century.”
“This is a book that all serious students of Strauss will have to consider.”
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Book Description Condition: New. Examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. This book argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical questioning. It offers a profound consideration of these two philosophers' reflections on the roots, meaning, and fate of Western rationalism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431. . 2011. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780226852546