MODERNITY AND WHAT HAS BEEN LOST
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE LEGACY OF LEO STRAUSS International Conference at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków June 4-5, 2009
Photo of Leo Strauss © Laurence Berns
Thursday, June 4
Friday, June 5
Bogdan Szlachta (Dean of Department of International and Political Studies) – Invitation
Nathan Tarcov (University of Chicago) - Leo Strauss on Machiavelli and the Origins of Modernity
Heinrich Meier (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / University of Chicago) – Why Leo Strauss. Four Answers and One Consideration concerning the Uses and Disadvantages of the School for the Philosophical Life
Paweł Śpiewak (University of Warsaw) – Jerusalem and Athens
Daniel Tanguay (University of Ottawa) – Leo Strauss and the Contemporary Return to Political Philosophy David Janssens (Tilburg University) – The Philosopher's Old Clothes: Leo Strauss on Philosophy and Poetry Jürgen Gebhardt (Universität ErlangenNürnberg) – Modern Challenges – Platonic Responses: Strauss, Arendt, Voegelin Paweł Kłoczowski (Jagiellonian University) Persecution and the Art of Writing in Poland under the Communist Rule (1945-1989): a Straussian Perspective The event is open to the public. Registration fee required. Student admission free.
www.kfp.uj.edu.pl/strauss Media support:
Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz (Jagiellonian University) – Karl Löwith and Leo Strauss on Modernity, Secularization, and Nihilism Emmanuel Patard (Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne) - Achieving or Transcending History? The Strauss- Kojève Dialogue and Its Presuppositions Paweł Armada (Jagiellonian University) – Leo Strauss as Erzieher: The Defense of the Philosophical Life or the Defense of Life against Philosophy? Piotr Nowak (Bialystok University) – Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt: Elective Affinities Marek Cichocki (University of Warsaw / College of Europe) - Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: On Justice among the Nations Till Kinzel (TU Berlin / TU Braunschweig) – Postmodernism and the Art of Writing: Leo Strauss's Importance in the 21st Century