Philipp von Wussow is Senior Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of CulturePart I: The Return of Religion, the Remnants of Neo-Kantianism, and the Systematic Place of "the Political" 1. Hermann Cohen on the Systematic Place of Religion2. Post-Cohenian Quarrels: Rosenzweig, Natorp, Strauss3. Strauss on Paul Natorp and Ernst Cassirer4. Returning to Cohen: "Cohen and Maimonides" on Ethics and Politics5. Strauss and Carl Schmitt: Vanquishing the "Systematics of Liberal Thought"Part II: The Argument and the Action of Philosophy and Law 6. A Hidden Masterpiece of Twentieth-Century Philosophy7. Strauss's Introduction8. Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann on the History of Jewish Philosophy9. A Complex Afterlife: Julius Guttmann, the "Jewish Thomism" Affair, and the Turn to ExotericismPart III: "German Nihilism" and the Intellectual Origins of National Socialism 10. Genealogies of National Socialism11. Strauss's ArgumentPart IV: Strauss on Modern Relativism 12. From "Culture" to "Cultures": Émigré Scholars, the Rise of Cultural Anthropology, and the Americanization of Leo Strauss13. Cannibalism: Leo Strauss and Cultural Anthropology14. Irrationalism and the Remnants of the Social Question15. Two Types of RelativismPart V: Jerusalem and Athens 16. Jerusalem and Athens or Jerusalem versus Athens?Conclusion: Leo Strauss and "the Natural Way" of ReadingNotesBibliographyIndex

"…[an] erudite, ambitious work. One leaves this book with a feeling that he has received an education—not just about Strauss's career but also about some of the most important intellectual junctions of the twentieth century." — Journal of Religion"Philipp von Wussow has given us an excellent and engaging study of Leo Strauss' oeuvre in his compact and accessible Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture." — Phenomenological Reviews"Von Wussow's book is a must read for anyone interested in Strauss's project, the themes of his work, or the genesis of his thought." — CHOICE"Von Wussow compellingly argues that Leo Strauss is to be considered not only a historian of philosophy, but an original philosopher in his own right." — Paul Mendes-Flohr, author of Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent