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

Examining The Complex Philosophical Relationship Between Martin Heidegger And Leo Strauss, Velkley Argues That Both Thinkers Provide Searching Analyses Of The Philosophical Tradition's Origins In Radical Questioning. Repetition Of Antiquity At The Peak Of Modernity -- Primal Truth, Errant Tradition, And Crisis: The Pre-socratics In Late Modernity -- The Unradicality Of Modern Philosophy: Thinking In Correspondence -- On Caves And Histories: Strauss's Post-nietzschean Socratism -- Exigencies Of Freedom And Politics -- Freedom From The Good: Heidegger's Idealist Grounding Of Politics -- Heidegger On Nietzsche And The Higher Freedom -- The Room For Political Philosophy: Strauss On Heidegger's Political Thought -- Construction Of Modernity -- On The Roots Of Rationalism: Strauss's Natural Right And History As Response To Heidegger -- Is Modernity An Unnatural Construct? -- Strauss On Individuality And Poetry -- Epilogue: Dwelling And Exile. Richard L. Velkley. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.