Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 235 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300104367
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0300130325
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1281722251
,
9780300104363
,
9780300130324
,
9781281722256
Inhalt:
The teachings of political theorist Leo Strauss (1899-1973) have recently received new attention, as political observers have become aware of the influence Strauss's students have had in shaping conservative agendas of the Bush administration - including the war on Iraq. This provocative book examines Strauss's ideas and the ways in which they have been appropriated, or misappropriated, by senior policymakers. Anne Norton, a political theorist trained by some of Strauss's most famous students, is well equipped to write on Strauss and Straussians. She tells three interwoven narratives: the story of Leo Strauss, a Jewish German-born emigre, who carried European philosophy into a new world; the story of the philosophic lineage that came from Leo Strauss; and the story of how America has been made a moral battleground by the likes of Paul Wolfowitz, Leon Kass, Carnes Lord, and Irving Kristol - Straussian conservatives committed to an American imperialism they believe will usher in a new world order
Inhalt:
Who is Leo Strauss? what is a Straussian? -- The lion and the ass -- Decline into the west -- Closing the American mind -- Getting the natural right -- Persecution and the art of writing -- Ancients and moderns -- The statesman -- On tyranny -- Conservatism abandoned -- The Sicilian expedition -- Athens and Jerusalem -- The School of Baghdad
Anmerkung:
Includes index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Norton, Anne Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004
Sprache:
Englisch
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