Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Why Strauss, Why Now? 1
5. Part One: Jerusalem
6. 1. How Jewish Was Leo Strauss? 23
7. 2. Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss: Notes toward a German-Jewish Dialogue 43
8. 3. Strauss’s Spinoza 65
9. Part Two: Athens
10. 4. Leo Strauss’s Platonic Liberalism 87
11. 5. Destruktion or Recovery? On Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger 108
12. 6. Tyranny Ancient and Modern 131
13. 7. Strauss’s America 156
14. 8. WWLSD; or, What Would Leo Strauss Do? 184
15. Notes 203
16. Index 239