Philosophical Readings IX.1 (2017)

Special Issue:

The Wisdom of the Ancients. The German-Jewish Revaluation of Ancient Philosophy

Guest Editors:

Anna Romani and Fabio Fossa

ARTICLES

Platos’ Republic: The Limits of Politics

Catherine H. Zuckert ............................................................................................................1

A Lesson in Politics: Some Remarks on Leo Strauss' Socrates and Aristophanes

Marco Menon ........................................................................................................................6

Plato, Arendt and the Conditions of Politics

Luca Timponelli....................................................................................................................12

Leo Strauss on Returning: Some Methodological Aspects

Philipp von Wussow.............................................................................................................18

Back to the Roots. The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Jacob Klein

David Janssens....................................................................................................................25

Repetition of Antiquity at the Peak of Modernity as Phenomenological Problem

Iacopo Chiaravalli..............................................................................................................31

Progress as a Problem:

Strauss and Löwith in Dialogue between Antiquity and Modernity

Anna Romani .......................................................................................................................37

Naturalness and Historicity:

Strauss and Klein on the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns

Danilo Manca......................................................................................................................44

Löwith's Nietzschean Return to the Ancient Conception of Nature

Eduardo Zazo Jiménez .......................................................................................................50

Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Temper. On the Role of Greek Philosophy and the

Jewish Tradition in Hans Jonas’s Philosophical Anthropology

Fabio Fossa ..........................................................................................................................55

Hans Jonas’ Work on Gnosticism as Counterhistory

Elad Lapidot .........................................................................................................................61

The Law and the Philosopher. On Leo Strauss’ “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari”

Ferdinand Deanini ...............................................................................................................69