Table of Contents

Editor's Preface

Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker

Part I: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought

1. Progress or Return? (1952)
2. Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)

Part II: Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers

3. How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948)
4. Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952)
5. Introductory Essay to Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1972)

Part III: Lectures on Contemporary Jewish Issues

6. Freud on Moses and Monotheism (1958)
7. Why We Remain Jews (1962)

Part IV: Studies on the Hebrew Bible

8. On the Interpretation of Genesis (1957)
9. Jerusalem and Athens (1967)

Part V: Comments on Jewish History

10. What Is Political Philosophy? [The First Paragraph] (1954)
11. Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History (1957)
12. Letter to the Editor: The State of Israel (1957)

Part VI: Miscellaneous Writings on Jews and Judaism

13. Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
14. Perspectives on the Good Society (1963)

Part VII: Autobiographical Reflections

15. An Unspoken Prologue (1959)
16. Preface to Hobbes Politische Wissenschaft (1965)
17. A Giving of Accounts (1970)

Appendix 1: Plan of a Book Tentatively Entitled Philosophy and the Law: Historical Essays (1946)

Appendix 2: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero [The Last Paragraph] (1950)

Appendix 3: Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson (1961)

Sources

Bibliography

Index