Jerusalem and Athens: Reason and Revelation in the Works of Leo Strauss. (book reviews)

Michael Palmer, University of Maine

Susan Orr's book is one of a relatively small but rapidly increasing number of attempts to read and understand the writings of Leo Strauss as Strauss read and understood the writings of political philosophers before him. The first genuinely philosophical reading of Strauss was Alexandre Kojeve's, half a century ago in postwar Paris. The most recent commendable attempt is Laurence Lampert's (1966) Leo Strauss and Nietzsche.

Orr's book is a paragraph-by-paragraph, even sentence-by-sentence, commentary on Strauss's 1967 lecture "Jerusalem and ...

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