A transatlantic mirror game
Quelennec, Bruno
A transatlantic mirror game - 2023.
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Based on the principle that the reasons for the politicization (or neutralization) of theoretical references to Leo Strauss can only be elucidated by considering together the philosopher’s writings and their various receptions, this article begins with a short intellectual biography, divided into six different “sequences.” We insist on the “polyphonic” dimension of Strauss’s work, which seems to authorize the most contradictory readings. In a second part, we discuss two opposite paradigms of the reception of his writings: the North American one, punctuated by polemics, and the French one, rather consensual. Toward the end of the paper, we explain how Leo Strauss could become a canonical figure in France in the context of the “return to political philosophy.”
A transatlantic mirror game - 2023.
28
Based on the principle that the reasons for the politicization (or neutralization) of theoretical references to Leo Strauss can only be elucidated by considering together the philosopher’s writings and their various receptions, this article begins with a short intellectual biography, divided into six different “sequences.” We insist on the “polyphonic” dimension of Strauss’s work, which seems to authorize the most contradictory readings. In a second part, we discuss two opposite paradigms of the reception of his writings: the North American one, punctuated by polemics, and the French one, rather consensual. Toward the end of the paper, we explain how Leo Strauss could become a canonical figure in France in the context of the “return to political philosophy.”
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