Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Thinking in Public

Strauss, Levinas, Arendt

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in History, Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224344
• ISBN-10: 0812224345
• Artikelnr.: 54684292

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I. LEO STRAUSS AND THE PROBLEM OF "THE INTELLECTUAL"
Chapter 1. Moderns and Medievals
Chapter 2. The Exoteric Writing Thesis
Chapter 3. Natural Right and Tyranny
PART II. THE DOG AT THE END OF THE VERSE: EMMANUEL LEVINAS BETWEEN ETHICS
AND ENGAGEMENT
Chapter 4. Growth of a Moralist
Chapter 5. Resisting Engagement
Chapter 6. Witnessing
PART III. AGAINST SPEECHLESS WONDER: HANNAH ARENDT ON PHILOSOPHERS AND
INTELLECTUALS
Chapter 7. Arendt's Weimar Origins
Chapter 8. From the Camps to Galileo
Chapter 9. One More Strange Island
PARTIV. A MISSED CONVERSATION
Chapter 10. Toward a Jewish Socrates?
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments