{"product_id":"progressive-minds-conservative-politics-aryeh-tepper-9781438448435","title":"Progressive Minds, Conservative Politics: Leo Strauss's Later Writings on Maimonides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling account of Strauss's mature Maimonidean writings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeo Strauss (1899-1973), one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century, was an astute interpreter of Maimonides's medieval masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Guide of the Perplexed\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eProgressive Minds, Conservative Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, Aryeh Tepper overturns the conventional view of Strauss's interpretation and of Strauss's own mature thought. According to the scholarly consensus, Strauss traced the well-known contradictions in the \u003ci\u003eGuide\u003c\/i\u003e to the fundamental tension in Maimonides's mind between reason and revelation, going so far as to suggest that while the Jewish philosopher's overt position was religiously pious (i.e., on the side of \"Jerusalem\"), secretly he was on the side of reason, or \"Athens.\" In Tepper's analysis, Strauss's judgments emerge as much more complex than this and also more open to revision. In his later writings, Tepper shows, Strauss pointed to contradictions in Maimonides's thought not only between but also within both \"Jerusalem\" and \"Athens.\" Moreover, Strauss identified, and identified himself with, an esoteric Maimonidean teaching on progress: progress within the Bible, beyond the Bible, and even beyond the rabbinic sages. Politically a conservative thinker, Strauss, like Maimonides, located man's deepest satisfaction in progressing in the discernment of the truth. In the fullness of his career, Strauss thus pointed to a third way beyond the modern alternatives of conservatism and progressivism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aryeh Tepper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438448430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438448435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Aryeh Tepper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47452695953663,"sku":"9781438448435","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3403a78-d9e1-4bb7-9603-aa4a83291e53.jpg?v=1761929984","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/progressive-minds-conservative-politics-aryeh-tepper-9781438448435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}