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Leo Strauss [a] (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy.Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States.
Despite academic debate, no widely accepted interpretation of this dichotomy has emerged. Some scholars, e.g. Lampert, [5] Frazer [6] and Drury [7] believe that Strauss wrote in an esoteric manner, while, others such as Batnitzky [8] finds this idea wrong. The lack of consensus on the exoteric-esoteric dichotomy has led to conflicting ...
David Friedrich Strauss (/ s t r aʊ s /; German: Strauß [ˈdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ʃtʁaʊs]; 27 January 1808 – 8 February 1874) [1] was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he explored via myth.
Allegorical interpretation states that biblical narratives have a second level of reference that is more than the people, events and things that are explicitly mentioned. One type of allegorical interpretation is known as typological, where the key figures, events, and establishments of the Old Testament are viewed as "types" (patterns). In the ...
Therefore, many literary critics take the same Lévi-Straussian structuralist, as it is coined, approach to literature. This approach is, again, similar to Symbolist critics’ approach to literature. There is a search for the lowest constituent of the story.
In the book, Jaffa explains the philosophical underpinnings of both Lincoln and Douglas' arguments. According to Catherine H. Zuckert, Jaffa "aimed at nothing less than bringing to bear on America the methods and substance of the Straussian revival of the Socratic tradition of political philosophy." Like Strauss, Jaffa observed the tendency of ...
In 1885 Strauss met the composer Alexander Ritter who was a violinist in the Meiningen orchestra and the husband of one of Richard Wagner's nieces. An avid champion of the ideals of Wagner and Franz Liszt, Ritter had a tremendous impact on the trajectory of Strauss's work as a composer from 1885 onward.
Culinary Triangle, a prototypical diagram of Lévi-Straussian structuralist anthropology Having described a pattern—denouncing metaphysics while relying on it—in discourses about metaphysics, Derrida suggests consideration of the same pattern within the "human sciences", [ 16 ] whose subjection to the "critique of ethnocentrism" parallels ...