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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norton, Anne (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press ©2004.
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.