Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire /
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 e...
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New Haven, CT ; London :
Yale University Press
©2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nq4pm |
Table of Contents:
- 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.