Maimonides’ Secret: Leo Strauss’s “The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed”
This article offers a new account of Leo Strauss’s interpretation of Maimonides’ esoteric teaching in the Guide for the Perplexed, which Strauss offers in his seminal essay ‘The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed.’ According to the generally-accepted view, for Strauss, Maimonides’ eso...
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Springer Netherlands
[2020]
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Sophia
Year: 2020, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 247-271 |
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Maimonides
B Decisionism B Esotericism B Leo Strauss B Carl Schmitt |
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