Philosophical Readings IX.1 (2017)

Special Issue: The Wisdom of the Ancients. The German-Jewish Revaluation of Ancient Philosophy Guest Editors: Anna Romani and Fabio Fossa ARTICLES Platos’ Republic: The Limits of Politics Catherine H. Zuckert ............................................................................................................1 A Lesson in Politics: Some Remarks on Leo Strauss' Socrates and Aristophanes Marco Menon ........................................................................................................................6 Plato, Arendt and the Conditions of Politics Luca Timponelli....................................................................................................................12 Leo Strauss on Returning: Some Methodological Aspects Philipp von Wussow.............................................................................................................18 Back to the Roots. The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Jacob Klein David Janssens....................................................................................................................25 Repetition of Antiquity at the Peak of Modernity as Phenomenological Problem Iacopo Chiaravalli..............................................................................................................31 Progress as a Problem: Strauss and Löwith in Dialogue between Antiquity and Modernity Anna Romani .......................................................................................................................37 Naturalness and Historicity: Strauss and Klein on the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns Danilo Manca......................................................................................................................44 Löwith's Nietzschean Return to the Ancient Conception of Nature Eduardo Zazo Jiménez .......................................................................................................50 Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Temper. On the Role of Greek Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition in Hans Jonas’s Philosophical Anthropology Fabio Fossa ..........................................................................................................................55 Hans Jonas’ Work on Gnosticism as Counterhistory Elad Lapidot .........................................................................................................................61 The Law and the Philosopher. On Leo Strauss’ “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari” Ferdinand Deanini ...............................................................................................................69