The Truth about Leo Strauss

The Truth about Leo Strauss

The Truth about Leo Strauss

Editorial: Chicago

Pàgines: 352

Any: 2006

EAN: 9780226993324

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Is Leo Strauss truly an intellectual forebear of neoconservatism and a powerful force in shaping Bush administration foreign policy? The Truth about Leo Strauss puts this question to rest, revealing for the first time how the popular media came to perpetuate such an oversimplified view of such a complex and wide-ranging philosopher. More important, it corrects our perception of Strauss, providing the best general introduction available to the political thought of this misunderstood figure. Catherine and Michael Zuckert—both former students of Strauss—guide readers here to a nuanced understanding of how Strauss’s political thought fits into his broader philosophy. Challenging the ideas that Strauss was an inflexible conservative who followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt, the Zuckerts contend that Strauss’s signature idea was the need for a return to the ancients. This idea, they show, stemmed from Strauss’s belief that modern thought, with its relativism and nihilism, undermines healthy politics and even the possibility of real philosophy. Identifying this view as one of Strauss’s three core propositions—America is modern, modernity is bad, and America is good—they conclude that Strauss was a sober defender of liberal democracy, aware of both its strengths and its weaknesses
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction: Mr. Strauss Goes to Washington? Part I: Strauss Chapter One. The Return to the Ancients: An Overview of the Straussian Project Strauss´s Philosophical Project Strauss´s Departure from Heidegger and Nietzsche Strauss´s Analysis of the Contemporary Crisis Strauss´s Way Back to Ancient Political Philosophy Strauss´s Rereading of the History of Philosophy Political Philosophy and Politics Chapter Two. Strauss—Modernity—America Proposition 1: America Is Modern Proposition 2: Modernity Is Bad Proposition 3: America Is Good Straussian Ambiguities Chapter Three. Leo Strauss as a Postmodern Political Thinker The Problem of the Postmodern Strauss´s Postmodernism: After Nietzsche Strauss´s Postmodernism: After Heidegger Derridean Postmodernism Contrasting the Two Forms of Postmodernism Chapter Four. The Man Who Gave Away the Secrets: On Esotericism How Shadia Drury Read Leo StraussXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"On Esotericism and Noble Lies Looking for Secrets in All the Wrong Places Chapter Five. Leo Strauss—Teacher of Evil? Strauss and the "Tyrannical Teaching" The Thrasymachean Thesis The Machiavellian Moment Strauss and Schmitt Part II: Straussians Chapter Six. The Emergence of the Straussian Study of America Water Berns: The Virtuous Republic Martin Diamond: Finding the Founding Harry Jaffa: Aristotelianizing America Chapter Seven: Straussian Geography
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