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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Encounters with Leo Strauss and Natural Right
1. Reason, Faith, and Law: Catholic Encounters with Leo Strauss
2. Wine with Plato and Hemlock with Socrates”: Charles McCoy’s Dialogue with Leo Strauss and the Character of Thomistic Political Philosophy
3. Wisdom and Folly: Reconsidering Leo Strauss on the Natural Law
4. Modernity, Creation, and Catholicism: Leo Strauss and Benedict XVI
5. Leo Strauss’s Critique of Modern Political Philosophy and Ernest Fortin’s Critique of Modern “Catholic Social Teaching”
Part 2. Leo Strauss and Catholic Concerns
6. The Mutual Concerns of Leo Straussand His Catholic Contemporaries: D’Entrèves, McCoy, Simon
7. On the Catholic Audience of Leo Strauss
8. The Possible Harmony of Reason and Revelation in Politics and Philosophy: A Catholic Reading of Leo Strauss’s “Progress or Return?”
9. What Might a Catholic Reader Learn from Strauss about Catholicism?: On the Supposed Distinction of Natural Right and Natural Law
10. The Influence of Historicism on Catholic Theology
Part 3. Leo Strauss on Christianity, Politics, and Philosophy
11. The City and the Whole: Remarks on the Limits and the Seriousness of the Political in Strauss’s Thought
12. Aristotelian Metaphysics and Modern Science: Leo Strauss on What Nature Is
13. Strauss and Pascal: Is Discussion Possible?
14. Leo Strauss’s Profound and Fragile Critique of Christianity
Bibliography
Contributors
Index