A webinar -- "Future Directions in Strauss Studies" (April 26, 2024)

An international panel on Strauss, Friday April 26, 2024, 10-1 pm ET Hosts: Svetozar Minkov, Roosevelt University & Hannes Kerber, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Speakers: Eric Buzzetti, Concordia University, Montréal, "The Theologico-Political Problem: Xenophon's Oeconomicus and the 1946 'Shipwreck'"
Alexis Carré, Harvard University, "Strauss, Schmitt, and the Political Polarity"
Marco Menon, Università della Svizzera Italiana, "Strauss as a Theologian"
Rasoul Namazi, Duke Kunshan University, "Strauss as a Farabian Historian"
Alex Priou, University of Austin, "Strauss as Scholar-Philosopher"
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Comments from Ronna Burger:
Socrates’ unwillingness to deal with Parmenides (Theaetetus 183e)-- “I’m afraid we’ll fail as much to understand what he was saying as we’ll fall far short of what he thought when he spoke”-- a model for the Straussian “humility” of the “historian”?, which of course is the boldness of the interpreter’s thinking inspired by the gap between speeches and intention. [re: Namazi's presentation]
On the relation between political philosophy and philosophy as such, Benardete’s 1974 memorial speech for Strauss: “the political-theological issue as the philosophical issue, since the problem of the human good is grounded in the city, and the problem of being in god. Political philosophy was therefore the eccentric core of philosophy, and the problem of Socrates the problem of philosophy itself.”