Introduction / Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Marc de Launay, Gérald Sfez -- "Si je me bats seulement pour moi, que suis-je ?" -- Leo Strauss et l'élection des juifs, par Bruno Karsenti -- L'antériorité de la Loi et la difficulté du retour, par Gérald Sfez -- Ce siècle où Dieu mourait. L'idéal de la civilisation moderne à l'épreuve de l'hitlérisme. Étude sur Leo Strauss et Emmanuel Levinas, par Danielle Cohen-Levinas -- Livre juif ou livre grec ? Sur Genèse 1, par Marc de Launay -- La lecture straussienne du codage du Guide des perplexes de Maïmonide. Secrets et contradictions, par Géraldine Roux -- La thèse de Leo Strauss sur Jacobi, par Heinz Wismann -- Strauss et Schmitt dans "l'étau théologico-politique" : le judaïsme, la neutralité libérale et la mort du Léviathan, par Jean-Claude Monod -- Inédit. Leo Strauss, La situation religieuse actuelle, traduit par Marc de Launay
Leo Perutz (1882-1957) is regarded as a master in fantastic literature, a fact which has sometimes aroused reservations. This study sets the theoretical problem again and analyses Perutz's work on the basis of a revised definition of the genre. As the corpus has not been fully recognized yet – a problem which is common in German fantastic literature – the 1st chapter studies how these texts have been evaluated and offers a reasoned appraisal of them. The 2nd chapter explores the problems linked to the notion of fantastic literature, highlighting how different the German critical approach to this genre is compared to the French one. The genre is then defined in a pragmatic way, as a contradictory organization of the various elements in the narrative – a blend of mimetic writing and marvellous literature – which disrupts the epistemological and aesthetic cohesion of the references to reality, in ways specific to each author. This definition is then applied to LP's work. The various elements that contribute to recreate reality (the attention to details, textual realism, a close observation of social realities) are examined in chapter 3. Chapter 4 deals with space and time and with the difficulties one can have in interpreting the ambivalent historical references. The 5th chapter is about the partly imaginary reconstruction of history which, paradoxically enough, underlines some of its fundamental issues: the question of the Revolution, the German Empire seen as a chimerical territory. Chapter 6 deals with the stylistic and thematic borrowings from the marvellous, which result in a blend of mocked esotericism and Judeo-Christian supernatural. Chapter 7 explores the paradoxical architectures that such a twofold aesthetic allegiance generates. At the very heart of aporetic constructions uniting fatality with a kind of sad awareness, one can recognize characters fantasizing themselves as heroes: such fantasies, when manipulated by a Führer will lead to political delusion. ; L'autrichien Leo Perutz (1882-1957) a souvent ...
Senior Research Fellow from the Institute for National Strategic Studies here presents five major challenges facing relations between the United States & Europe. These entail, first & foremost, a unified means of identifying security threats faced by both sides of the Atlantic & a unified means of preparing a strategy of response to these threats. Following this, Michel argues that the EU will have to adopt the military capacity to be able to carry out military initiatives necessary to the eradication of terrorist threats. Such a military development would also entail a new means of thinking about the EU's relationship with NATO. Finally, what is fundamental to solving any of these enormous obstacles is the necessity to strike a positive tone between the United States & Europe that is founded not upon difference, but upon similarity & common values. C. Brunski
Leo Perutz (1882-1957) is regarded as a master in fantastic literature, a fact which has sometimes aroused reservations. This study sets the theoretical problem again and analyses Perutz's work on the basis of a revised definition of the genre. As the corpus has not been fully recognized yet – a problem which is common in German fantastic literature – the 1st chapter studies how these texts have been evaluated and offers a reasoned appraisal of them. The 2nd chapter explores the problems linked to the notion of fantastic literature, highlighting how different the German critical approach to this genre is compared to the French one. The genre is then defined in a pragmatic way, as a contradictory organization of the various elements in the narrative – a blend of mimetic writing and marvellous literature – which disrupts the epistemological and aesthetic cohesion of the references to reality, in ways specific to each author. This definition is then applied to LP's work. The various elements that contribute to recreate reality (the attention to details, textual realism, a close observation of social realities) are examined in chapter 3. Chapter 4 deals with space and time and with the difficulties one can have in interpreting the ambivalent historical references. The 5th chapter is about the partly imaginary reconstruction of history which, paradoxically enough, underlines some of its fundamental issues: the question of the Revolution, the German Empire seen as a chimerical territory. Chapter 6 deals with the stylistic and thematic borrowings from the marvellous, which result in a blend of mocked esotericism and Judeo-Christian supernatural. Chapter 7 explores the paradoxical architectures that such a twofold aesthetic allegiance generates. At the very heart of aporetic constructions uniting fatality with a kind of sad awareness, one can recognize characters fantasizing themselves as heroes: such fantasies, when manipulated by a Führer will lead to political delusion. ; L'autrichien Leo Perutz (1882-1957) a souvent été lu dans la perspective du fantastique, ce qui a suscité des réserves. Cette étude reprend la question théorique et analyse l'œuvre à partir d'une définition rénovée du genre. Le corpus n'étant pas encore pleinement reconnu, problème par ailleurs fréquent dans le fantastique allemand, un 1er chapitre étudie la réception de l'écrivain et propose une évaluation raisonnée de son œuvre. Le chapitre 2 examine les problèmes liés à la notion de fantastique en soulignant les différences d'approche entre les traditions critiques françaises et germaniques. Le genre est défini, dans une perspective pragmatique, comme une organisation contradictoire du matériel narratif entre écriture mimétique et emprunts au merveilleux, qui fait éclater la cohésion épistémologique et esthétique de la référence au réel, selon des enjeux propres à chaque auteur. Cette proposition est ensuite confrontée au corpus perutzien, selon un parcours linéaire. Les éléments concourant à l'effet de réel – art du détail, réalisme textuel et ancrage social – sont d'abord examinés au chapitre 3. La dimension spatio-temporelle et les difficultés d'interprétation liées à la mise en œuvre ambivalente des références historiques fournissent la matière du chapitre 4, le 5e portant sur la recomposition en partie imaginaire de l'histoire qui en fait paradoxalement apparaître certains enjeux fondamentaux : la question de la révolution et celle de l'empire allemand vu comme un espace chimérique. Le chapitre 6 aborde d'autre part les emprunts stylistiques et thématiques au domaine du merveilleux, entre ésotérisme dérisoire et surnaturel judéo-chrétien, et le chapitre 7 étudie les architectures paradoxales nées de cette double allégeance esthétique. Au cœur de constructions aporétiques mariant fatalité et conscience malheureuse se reflète un fantasme d'héroïsme qui, dangereusement manié par un nouveau Führer, deviendra aussi un leurre politique.
Les grands thèmes de la pensée de Leo Strauss sont présentés comme des étapes éclairant sa critique du rationalisme moderne. Ce point de départ aide à comprendre que la querelle entre les Anciens et les Modernes implique le rejet d'un cadre de pensée hérité du christianisme. La réouverture du problème théologico-politique permet de faire le point sur l'héritage des Lumières modernes, d'introduire la notion maïmonidienne de Loi et de souligner le message politique de la philosophie de Platon. Remettant en question la conception de l'homme sur laquelle s'appuie le libéralisme politique, Strauss propose des pistes de réflexion dont il s'agit d'apprécier l'originalité et les limites.
This article examines how Leo Strauss's redevelops the terms of the dispute between the ancients & the moderns, siding with the former against the latter, whom he accuses of having ruined the philosophical tradition & thereby precluding any possibility of an authentically philosophical life. Though it may easily be taken for the work of an erudite commentator, Strauss's oeuvre is actually animated by an authentic intellectual undertaking, at once theoretical & practical, in which a critique of modernity & a diagnosis of modern nihilism play a decisive part. So it may be understood as a form of "philosophical conservatism," a designation which this article seeks to characterize & which renders at once possible & tenuous his supposed affiliation to current neo-conservative ideological positions in the United States. Adapted from the source document.
