CULTURE AND LAW IN WEIMAR JEWISH MEDIEVALISM: LEO STRAUSS'S CRITIQUE OF JULIUS GUTTMANN
The German Jewish historian of political philosophy Leo Strauss is best known for mature works in which he proposed the existence of an esoteric tradition in political philosophy, attacked the liberal tradition of political thought, and defended a classical approach to natural right against its modern counterparts. This essay demonstrates that in his youth, beginning during a scholarly apprenticeship at the Berlin Akademie fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Strauss championed “medievals” (rather than ancients) against “moderns,” and did so through a sparring match with his postdoctoral supervisor Julius Guttmann, whom he cast in the role of representative “modern.” While for Guttmann the stakes were scholarly, for Strauss they were political. Strauss's Weimar Jewish “medievalism” was a deliberate rejection of the tradition of modern Jewish thought Strauss associated with Guttmann's teacher Hermann Cohen, whom Strauss accused of neglecting the political distinctiveness of Jewish thought. While the conflict between Strauss and Guttmann has been neglected in much of the literature on Strauss, it served as the crucible in which many of his mature views, including his famous exoteric (sometimes called “esoteric”) writing thesis, began to take shape.
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy
Abbreviations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Germans, Jews, and the Transformation of Weimar Philosophy 1. Toward Metaphysics: Cohen's Opus Postumum and the Origins of the New Thinking 2. Hegel's Fate: The Emergence of Finitude in Rosenzweig's Hegel and the State 3. Beyond Metaphysics: Rosenzweig's Star (Part I) 4. Redemption-in-the-World: Rosenzweig's Star (Part II) 5. "Facing the Wooded Ridge": The Hebrew Bible in the German Horizon 6. "An Irony in the History of Spirit": Rosenzweig, Heidegger, and the Davos Disputation Conclusion: Germans, Jews, and the Politics of Interpretation Index
Analysis of a coaxial-to-waveguide adaptor including a discended probe and a tuning post
A field matching analysis of a coaxial-to-waveguide adaptor incorporating a disc-ended probe and a tuning post is presented. In this analysis, the tuning post is considered as a short-circuited second probe. A computer algorithm for calculating the input impedance of this structure is developed. This algorithm is used to investigate and improve the operation of a commercially available coaxial-to-waveguide adaptor. >