Modernity and What Has Been Lost: Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss [Paperback]

Pawel Armada and Arkadiusz Gornisiewicz both teach and studey at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Polan.

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 Laurence Lampert, Leo Strauss’s Gynaikologia

Modernity and What Has Been Lostcomes out of a conference held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, on June 4–5, 2009 that sought to identify Leo Strauss’s intellectual background in re: the repudiation of a modern idea of homogenous, universal state (considered as an illegitimate synthesis of Jerusalem and Athens, i.e., the claims of Reason and Revelation). The world we live in, molded by science and historical relativism, may be described as hostile to human dignity or perfection, or abhorrent to those who love the search for wisdom. Straussian teaching consisted in the steady effort to reopen “the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns,” and refers to the elS+