The Critique of Contemporary Historicism in Leo Strauss

ISBN-13: 9786204243481 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str.

Sylvain KAMBALA

Opis

Strauss sees historicism as what, in some respects, has sadly come to crystallize the sidelining of the transcendent from the reality of human affairs. Convinced that political philosophy is a quest for the best political regime or the overcoming of actuality, Strauss' philosophical gesture is inscribed in the metahistorical and transcendent horizon.The analysis that Sylvain Kambala offers us is a faithful reading of a well-defined selection of Strauss's texts based on his hypothesis of contemporary historicism as a major adversary of political philosophy. This position is explained within the framework of a polarity between the Ancients (Plato and a certain vision of political philosophy) and the Moderns (the abandonment of Platonic philosophy by a whole modernity staged by Strauss as a history of decline). The book is devoted to the presentation and critique of historicism in order to achieve a recovery of the authentic political philosophy advocated by Strauss.

O autorze

KAMBALA, SylvainFormer grant holder of the Cooperation for Development 2004-2008 (within the framework of the Convention between the Faculty of Philosophical Sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain and the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Congo) and Doctor of Philosophy, Sylvain KAMBALA teaches philosophy at the University of Lubumbashi (DRC).