Leo Strauss and the American Right

Leo Strauss and the American Right
Title Leo Strauss and the American Right PDF eBook
Author Shadia B. Drury
Publisher
Pages 239
Release 1999
Genre Conservatism
ISBN 9780333772294

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In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States for his first term and the conservative revolution that was slowly developing in the United States finally emerged in full-throated roar. Who provoked the conservative revolution? In this work, Shadia Drury provides an answer to the question as she looks at the work of Leo Strauss, a seemingly reclusive German-Jewish emigrant and scholar, who was one of the most influential individuals in the conservative movement, a man widely seen as the godfather of the Republican party's failed Contract With America.

Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America

Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America
Title Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America PDF eBook
Author Paul E. Gottfried
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 193
Release 2011-12-29
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1139505483

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This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. The conservative movement that reached out to Strauss and his legacy was extremely fluid and lacked a self-confident leadership. Conservative activists and journalists felt a desperate need for academic acceptability, which they thought Strauss and his disciples would furnish. They also became deeply concerned with the problem of 'value relativism', which self-described conservatives thought Strauss had effectively addressed. But until recently, neither Strauss nor his disciples have considered themselves to be 'conservatives'. Contrary to another misconception, Straussians have never wished to convert Americans to ancient political ideals and practices, except in a very selective rhetorical fashion. Strauss and his disciples have been avid champions of American modernity, and 'timeless' values as interpreted by Strauss and his followers often look starkly contemporary.

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
Title Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire PDF eBook
Author Anne Norton
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 262
Release 2005-01-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780300109733

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This provocative book examines the teachings of political theorist Leo Strauss and the ways in which they have been appropriated, or misappropriated, by senior policymakers.

Natural Right and History

Natural Right and History
Title Natural Right and History PDF eBook
Author Leo Strauss
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 337
Release 2013-12-27
Genre Political Science
ISBN 022622645X

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In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever. "Strauss . . . makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves . . . [and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant, incisive mind."—John H. Hallowell, American Political Science Review Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy

Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy
Title Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy PDF eBook
Author Grant Havers
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 263
Release 2013-10-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1609090942

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Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream readers of Strauss have either condemned him from the Left as an extreme right-wing opponent of liberal democracy or celebrated him from the Right as a traditional defender of Western civilization. Rejecting both portrayals, Grant Havers shifts the debate beyond the conventional parameters stating that Strauss was neither a man of the Far Right nor a conservative but. in fact a secular Cold War liberal. In Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy Havers contends that the most troubling implication of Straussianism is that it provides an ideological rationale for the aggressive spread of democratic values on a global basis while ignoring the preconditions that make these values possible. Concepts such as the rule of law, constitutional government, Christian morality, and the separation of church and state are not easily transplanted beyond the historic confines of Anglo-American civilization, as recent wars to spread democracy have demonstrated.

Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss
Title Leo Strauss PDF eBook
Author Robert Howse
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 201
Release 2014-09-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1107074991

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This book analyzes Leo Strauss's writings on political violence, considering also what he taught in the classroom on this subject.

Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America

Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America
Title Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America PDF eBook
Author Adi Armon
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 230
Release 2019-09-25
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3030243893

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This is the first book-length examination of the impact Leo Strauss’ immigration to the United States had on this thinking. Adi Armon weaves together a close reading of unpublished seminars Strauss taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s with an interpretation of his later works, all of which were of course written against the backdrop of the Cold War. First, the book describes the intellectual environment that shaped the young Strauss’ worldview in the Weimar Republic, tracing those aspects of his thought that changed and others that remained consistent up until his immigration to America. Armon then goes on to explore the centrality of Karl Marx to Strauss’s intellectual biography. By analyzing an unpublished seminar Strauss taught with Joseph Cropsey at the University of Chicago in 1960, Armon shows how Strauss’ fragmentary, partial engagement with Marx in writing obscured the important role that Marxism actually played as an intellectual challenge to his later political thinking. Finally, the book explores the manifestations of Straussian doctrine in postwar America through reading Strauss’ The City and Man (1964) as a representative of his political teaching.