Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Kenneth Hart Green is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.

• Acknowledgments Editor's Preface Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker Part I: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought 1. Progress or Return? (1952)2. Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965) Part II: Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers 3. How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948)4. Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952)5. Introductory Essay to Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1972) Part III: Lectures on Contemporary Jewish Issues 6. Freud on Moses and Monotheism (1958)7. Why We Remain Jews (1962) Part IV: Studies on the Hebrew Bible 8. On the Interpretation of Genesis (1957)9. Jerusalem and Athens (1967) Part V: Comments on Jewish History 10. What Is Political Philosophy? [The First Paragraph] (1954)11. Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History (1957)12. Letter to the Editor: The State of Israel (1957) Part VI: Miscellaneous Writings on Jews and Judaism 13. Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)14. Perspectives on the Good Society (1963) Part VII: Autobiographical Reflections 15. An Unspoken Prologue (1959)16. Preface to Hobbes Politische Wissenschaft (1965)17. A Giving of Accounts (1970) Appendix 1: Plan of a Book Tentatively Entitled Philosophy and the Law: Historical Essays (1946) Appendix 2: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero [The Last Paragraph] (1950) Appendix 3: Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson (1961) Sources Bibliography Index

"...The wealth of material, the immediacy of Strauss's manner embodied in these papers, their philosophic range, make of this a formidable witness. The editor's introduction on 'a modern Jewish thinker' is finely judged. It places Strauss in the vital context of Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and the theological-political dilemmas posed by Zionism. It makes clear by implication why the very few contemporaries whom Strauss regarded as his intellectual-scholarly peers included Jacob Klein, the historian of Greek mathematics and logic, and Gershom Scholem." — Times Literary Supplement