Introduction; Martin D. Yaffe and Richard S. Ruderman
1. How Strauss Became Strauss; Heinrich Meier
2. Spinoza's Critique of Religion: Reading Too Literally and Not Reading Literally Enough; Steven Frank
3. The Light Shed on the Crucial Development of Strauss's Thought by his Correspondence with Gerhard Krüger; Thomas L. Pangle
4. Strauss on Hermann Cohen's 'Idealizing' Appropriation of Maimonides as a Platonist; Martin D. Yaffe
5. Strauss on the Religious and Intellectual Situation of the Present; Timothy W. Burns
6. Carl Schmitt and Strauss's Return to Pre-Modern Philosophy; Nasser Behnegar
7. Strauss, Hobbes, and the Origins of Natural Science; Timothy W. Burns
8. Strauss on Farabi, Maimonides, et al. in the 1930s; Joshua Parens
9. The Problem of the Enlightenment: Strauss, Jacobi, and the Pantheism Controversy; David Janssens
10. 'Through the Keyhole': Strauss's Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon's Constitution of the Lacedaemonians; Richard S. Ruderman
11. Strauss and Schleiermacher on How to Read Plato: An Introduction to 'Exoteric Teaching'; Hannes Kerber
Appendix: Seven Writings by Leo Strauss
A. 'Conspectivism' (1929); Translated by Anna Schmidt and Martin D. Yaffe
B. 'Religious Situation of the Present' (1930); Translated by Anna Schmidt and Martin D. Yaffe
C. 'The Intellectual Situation of the Present' (1932); Translated by Anna Schmidt and Martin D. Yaffe
D. 'A Lost Writing of Farâbî's' (1936); Translated by Gabriel Bartlett and Martin D. Yaffe
E. 'On Abravanel's Critique of Monarchy' (1937); Translated by Martin D. Yaffe
F. 'Exoteric Teaching' (1939); Edited by Hannes Kerber
G. Lecture Notes for 'Persecution and the Art of Writing' (1939); Edited by Hannes Kerber
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