List of Abbreviations
Leo Strauss’s Early Years: Chronology of Major Events and Writings (1899–1937)
Introduction
1. “In the Grip of the Theological-Political Predicament”
The Theological-Political Problem and the Jewish Question
Back to Reality: Emancipation, Assimilation, and Zionism
“God and Politics”
Biblical Politics, Biblical Science, and the New Theology
Quaestio Iuris: The Legacy of Spinoza
The Crisis of the Enlightenment: Jacobi, Mendelssohn, and the Pantheism Controversy
Atheism, Intellectual Probity, and the Love of Truth
The Socratic Question and the Fate of Philosophy