Leo Strauss 
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The Early Writings (1921-1932)

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Part I. Introduction

A German Jewish Youth • ‘Change in Orientation’ • Political Existence and Religion • Beyond Atheism and Orthodoxy • The Virtue of Modesty

Part II. Leo Strauss: Early Publications (1921-32)

I. The Dissertation (1921)

The Problem of Knowledge in the Philosophical Doctrine of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

II. Zionist Writings (1923-25)

Response to Frankfurt’s ‘World of Principle’
The Holy
A Note on the Discussion of ‘Zionism and Anti-Semitism’
The Zionism of Nordau
Paul de Lagarde
Sociological Historiography?
Review of Albert Levkowitz, Contemporary Religious Thinkers
On the Argument with European Science
Comment on Weinberg’s Critique
Ecclesia militans
Biblical History and Science

III. Historical-Philological Writings on Spinoza (1924-26)

Cohen’s Analysis of Spinoza’s Bible Science
On the Bible Science of Spinoza and His Precursors

IV. Reorientation (1928-32)

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Franz Rosenweig and the Academy for the Science of Judaism
Review of Julius Ebbinghaus, On the Progress of Metaphysics
The Testament of Spinoza

Index of Sources

General Index

Michael Zank is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of
The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen.