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Online-Ressource (269 p.)
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9780226763897
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Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy-perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in Reading Leo Strauss, Smith shows that Strauss's defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and extreme Right.Smith asserts that this philosophical skepticism defined Stra
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Why Strauss, Why Now?; Part I. Jerusalem; 1. How Jewish Was Leo Strauss?; 2. Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss: Notes Toward a German-Jewish Dialogue; 3. Strauss's Spinoza; Part II. Athens; 4. Leo Strauss's Platonic Liberalism; 5. Destruction or Recovery? On Strauss's Critique of Heidegger; 6. Tyranny Ancient and Modern; 7. Strauss's America; 8. WWLSD; or, What Would Leo Strauss Do?; Notes; Index;
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ISBN 9780226763903
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ISBN 9780226764023
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reading Leo Strauss : Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
Sprache:
Englisch
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