Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire [electronic resource] / Anne Norton.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 235 p.)ISBN:- 9780300130324 (electronic bk.)
- 0300130325 (electronic bk.)
- 9780300104363 (cased)
- 0300104367 (cased)
- 1281722251
- 9781281722256
- Strauss, Leo
- Strauss, Leo
- Conservatism -- United States
- Political science -- Philosophy
- Political science -- History
- Conservatisme -- États-Unis
- Idées politiques
- Idées politiques -- Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory
- Neoconservatisme
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle
- აშშ პოლიტიკა მე-20 საუკუნე
- 320.092 22
- JC251.S8 N67 2004eb
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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.
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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