“Religion and the Commonweal in the Tradition of Political Philosophy”: An Unpublished Lecture by Leo Strauss

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2021-01-01

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The transcript published here for the first time is of Leo Strauss’s 1963 lecture on, and discussion of, the relation of religion to the commonweal in the tradition of political philosophy. In this lecture, Strauss considers the question of the establishment of religion, the relation of freedom of religion to freedom from religion, and the question of the truth of religion. The lecture has implications for American constitutional jurisprudence, especially concerning the First Amendment, which Strauss situates within the development of modern political philosophy.

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Minkov, S, and R Namazi (2021). “Religion and the Commonweal in the Tradition of Political Philosophy”: An Unpublished Lecture by Leo Strauss. American Political Thought, 10(1). pp. 86–120. 10.1086/711844 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23507.

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Namazi

Rasoul Namazi

Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Duke Kunshan University

Rasoul Namazi's research focus is the comparative study of Islamic and Western political thought. His work has been published in Comparative Political TheoryReview of Politics, Journal of Religion, Perspectives on Political Science, American Political Thought, Iranian Studies, Interpretation, Renaissance & Reformation, and Eurorient as well as several collected volumes.

Namazi’s book titled Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2022) is a recipient of the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science. The book is a comprehensive study of Leo Strauss’s writings on Islamic political thought. He is also a co-editor of Leo Strauss on Religion: Writings and Interpretations (SUNY Press, 2024) and is currently working on a book-length manuscript on early Islamic political thought in the Quran.

A laureate of Prix Raymond Aron, Namazi has a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, M.A. in Political Philosophy and Ethics from Université Paris-Sorbonne, M.A. in Political Studies from EHESS, and B.A. in Political Sciences from the University of Tehran Central. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2019-2021) and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago (2016-2018).


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