马基雅维利在他的两部最重要的著作之中都发出了惊人的宣告：在《君主论》中他公然宣称与之前的政治哲学传统决裂，而在《李维史论》中他则称自己发现了新方式和新秩序。马基雅维利或许有理由发出这样满怀自信的宣言，因为在批判基督教，宣扬世俗政治的意义上，他开启了政治哲学从古代转向近代的大幕，标志着一个世俗化时代的开端。马基雅维利这位基督顽固而狡诈的敌人，确实以其斗争的姿态预示了一个新时代的降临。 《马基雅维利与现代性——施特劳斯、政治现实主义与基督教》试图沿着施特劳斯开拓的马基雅维利解释道路继续前进。在总结施特劳斯对马基雅维利解释的贡献的基础上，作者刘玮力图修正施特劳斯所判定的马基雅维利对古典德性的背叛构成了其现代性的依据，认为马基雅维利其实继承了古典政治哲学中现实主义的一面，而他的现代性更多体现在向基督教吹响了人类精神的宏亮号角。 《马基雅维利与现代性——施特劳斯、政治现实主义与基督教》由华东师范大学出版社出版发行。

Summary Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution. This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of Strauss's contributions as a modern Jewish thinker. These essays and lectures also offer Strauss's mature considerations of some of the great figures in modern Jewish thought, such as Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, and Sigmund Freud. They also encompass his incisive analyses and original explorations of modern Judaism (which he viewed as caught in the grip of the "theological-political crisis"): from German Jewry, anti-semitism, and the Holocaust to Zionism and the State of Israel; from the question of assimilation to the meaning and value of Jewish history. In addition Strauss's two sustained interpretations of the Hebrew Bible are also reprinted. These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the "postcritical" reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting it rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker. Kenneth Hart Green is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Table Of Contents Acknowledgments 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 Bibliography Index

The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.

This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss's mature work. "[These essays] display the incomparable insight and remarkable range of knowledge that set Strauss's works apart from any other twentieth-century philosopher's."--Charles R. Kesler, National Review

1965年冬至1966年春，施特劳斯连续开设了两个学期的孟德斯鸠研读课，讲疏《论法的精神》和《波斯人信札》。为阅读方便，我们将《波斯人信札》讲疏单独刊行。本稿中的第一讲到第七讲，对应的是1966年春季课程的第十讲到第十六讲。 以小说形式探究重大政治问题，是西方文史的传统手法。因此，《波斯人信札》不仅是西方文学史上的名著，也在西方政治思想史上占有重要地位。在这部小说中，孟德斯鸠假托两位阿拉伯人离开祖国出游欧洲后写的书信以及他们与各色人等的通信，表达了启蒙思想的基本诉求。 本书基于施特劳斯于1966年开设的孟德斯鸠课程中对《波斯人信札》的疏解。施特劳斯将《波斯人信札》共161封信分为七个部分，并针对每个部分的每一封信进行了比较详尽的解读。通过这样的解读，施特劳斯不仅为我们揭示了：《波斯人信札》中的基本论题和《论法的精神》之间具有一致性，对于我们深入地理解《论法的精神》具有重要的价值和意义。

译者前言 致谢 前言 导言 第一部分 反自由主义者 第一章 梅斯特尔与反自由主义传统 第二章 施密特：自由主义的无能 第三章 施特劳斯：仅对哲学家而言的真理 第四章 麦金太尔反自由主义问答集 …… 第二部分 对自由主义历史的误解 第八章 作为自由主义历史学家的反自由主义者 第九章 社会的“原子化”？ 第十章 对共同利益漠不关心？ 第十一章 权威的消蚀 …… 结束语