ABSTRACT

The article examines Leo Strauss’s controversial and enigmatic Thoughts on Machiavelli against the backdrop of his biography. In order to understand the Thoughts on Machiavelli, it is necessary to reconstruct Strauss’s intellectual development since the 1920s. The analysis then focuses on two main questions in Strauss’s writings: is it possible to get a full understanding of “exile” in the context of the Jewish and the Western tradition and what does “Radical Enlightenment” mean exactly? Both concepts - “Exile” and “Radical Enlightenment” - need to be analyzed, according to Strauss, in an “exoteric” and an “esoteric” way. The conclusion of the article offers a traditional answer to Strauss’s challenge: Athens and Jerusalem are not separate, as Strauss suggests.

摘要

这篇文章以他的传记为背景，考察了列奥·施特劳斯对马基雅维利的争议和神秘的思想。为了理解《马基雅维利思想》，有必要重构施特劳斯自1920年代以来的思想发展。然后分析集中在施特劳斯著作中的两个主要问题：是否有可能在犹太和西方传统的背景下全面理解“流放”以及“激进启蒙”的确切含义？根据施特劳斯的说法，“流放”和“激进启蒙”这两个概念都需要以“公开”和“深奥”的方式进行分析。这篇文章的结论为施特劳斯的挑战提供了一个传统的答案：雅典和耶路撒冷并不像施特劳斯所说的那样是分开的。