Leo Strauss : an introduction to his thought and intellectual legacy
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Leo Strauss : an introduction to his thought and intellectual legacy
（The Johns Hopkins series in constitutional thought）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
- : hardcover
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-182) and index
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Description
Leo Strauss's controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence. Now their impact is emerging into broad daylight, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, often wildly speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements. This book, written as a corrective, is the first accurate, non-polemical, comprehensive guide to Strauss's mature political philosophy and its intellectual influence. Thomas L. Pangle opens a pathway into Strauss's major works with one question: How does Strauss's philosophic thinking contribute to our democracy's civic renewal and to our culture's deepening, critical self-understanding? This book includes a synoptic critical survey of writings from scholars who have extended Strauss's influence into the more practical, sub-philosophic fields of social and political science and commentary. Pangle shows how these analysts have in effect imported Straussian impulses into a "new" kind of political and social science.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Relativism: The Crux of Our Liberal Culture
2. The Revival of Classical Political Philosophy
3. The Rediscovery and Reassessment of the Foundations of Modernity
4. Strauss's Legacy in Political Science
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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