Leo Strauss and the “Return” to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
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Leo Strauss, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Jewish questionAbstract
The article is devoted to frame the intellectual profile of Leo Strauss, placing it within the historical, philosophical and religious setting that forms the background of his research work. The "Jewish question", meant as the dilemma of the modern Jew, divided between his belonging to the modern liberal society and his religious identity, represents the problem which the Young Strauss is measured with in Weimer's Germany, where he grows up and he is educated. From the comparison with the major currents of Jewish thought of the early twentieth century, the identification of his original path of study will take place, aimed at rethinking Jewish identity through the historical study and interpretation of Jewish medieval philosophy and its links with the Islamic one. Dissatisfaction about the responses offered by contemporaneity to the theological-political problem will lead Strauss to deepen the entire medieval Jewish philosophical tradition. In the Straussian path emerges the need for a more accurate understanding of medieval Jewish and Islamic thought, far from the distortions of the historiography of his time, which lost its specificity compared to that of the Christian and European Middle Ages.
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