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Notes ["Why We Remain Jews" was a lecture delivered by Leo Strauss at the Hillel House, University of Chicago, on 4 February 1962. It seems as if Strauss was using notes which had been prepared previously, but these do not survive.
Why We Remain Jews: Can Jewish Faith and History Still Speak to Us? Leo Strauss This was presented as a lecture to a small audience at the Hillel Foundation of the University of Chicago on 4 February 1962. The text that follows was not prepared for publication, or reviewed, by Leo Strauss. It was prepared
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Strauss’s occasional lectures are listed below in alphabetical order. Progress or Return? (November 1952) What is Political Philosophy? (Dec. 1954 and Jan. 1955) Why We Remain Jews: Can Jewish Faith and History Speak to Us? (February 1962)
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The German-Jewish political philosopher Leo Strauss was deeply attuned to the persistence of what he termed the “fundamental problems” of human existence, those irresolvable quandaries before which the philosopher must remain humble.1 Strauss’s preoccupation with these abiding problems can be traced back to his youth in Weimar Germany: in a Dece...
Apr 23, 2010 · Strauss, “Why We Remain Jews,” 78–9. 70. Even so, we do know that Strauss also drew the attention of trusted colleagues like Eric Voegelin to Scholem’s published work. Cf. Strauss’s letter to Voegelin of 9 May 1943 in Emberley and Cooper, Faith and Political Philosophy , 16.
