Editor's Preface
Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker
Part I: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought
1. Progress or Return? (1952)
2. Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)
Part II: Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers
3. How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948)
4. Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952)
5. Introductory Essay to Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1972)
Part III: Lectures on Contemporary Jewish Issues
6. Freud on Moses and Monotheism (1958)
7. Why We Remain Jews (1962)
Part IV: Studies on the Hebrew Bible
8. On the Interpretation of Genesis (1957)
9. Jerusalem and Athens (1967)
Part V: Comments on Jewish History
10. What Is Political Philosophy? [The First Paragraph] (1954)
11. Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History (1957)
12. Letter to the Editor: The State of Israel (1957)
Part VI: Miscellaneous Writings on Jews and Judaism
13. Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
14. Perspectives on the Good Society (1963)
Part VII: Autobiographical Reflections
15. An Unspoken Prologue (1959)
16. Preface to Hobbes Politische Wissenschaft (1965)
17. A Giving of Accounts (1970)
Appendix 1: Plan of a Book Tentatively Entitled Philosophy and the Law: Historical Essays (1946)
Appendix 2: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero [The Last Paragraph] (1950)
Appendix 3: Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson (1961)
Sources
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Index