Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,1 (2009) 1-46
Keywords:
Strauss, Leo
;
Heidegger, Martin,
;
Schmitt, Carl,
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Argues that in 1923-34 Strauss's views transformed from sheer anti-liberalism to a decisionism that was close to the views of the future Nazis Carl Schmitt and Heidegger and, in the words of Karl Löwith, to criticism of Nazism "from the right" as a "Judaism without God". His attitude toward the dispute between Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer in 1929 at the Davos "Hochschule" (in the Alps) is suggestive in this regard. In his writings of this period, Strauss, a Jew by birth, came to regard Judaism as a perverted religion and adopted many views of contemporary antisemites, including the belief that the modern world was a product of "Verjudung". Concludes that, as a proponent of such views, Strauss can no longer be regarded as a "Jewish thinker"; Jewish thought has its limits.
DOI:
10.1163/147728509X448975
URL:
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