TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norton,Anne
TI  - Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire
SN  - 9780300130324 (electronic bk.)
AV  - JC251.S8 N67 2004eb
U1  - 320.092 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New Haven, CT, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Strauss, Leo.
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Conservatisme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Idées politiques
KW  - Histoire
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Neoconservatisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - აშშ პოლიტიკა
KW  - მე-20 საუკუნე
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; 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
N2  - 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
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