The legacy of Leo Strauss /

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Burns, Tony, 1953-, Connelly, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, 2010
2015
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Contents; Front matter ; Title page ; Publisher information ; Acknowledgments; Body matter ; 1. Introduction: Straussian Voices ; Part One. Strauss, Methodology, and the History of Ideas ; 2. Esotericism and Modernity: An Encounter with Leo Strauss ; 3. Strauss on Aristotle and the Idea of a 'State of Exception' ; 4. Straussianism and Post-Structuralism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? ; Part Two. Encounters: Strauss and his Contemporaries ; 5. Strauss's Collingwood ; 6. On Strauss's Change of Orientation in Relation to Carl Schmitt.
  • 7. On Plato as Origin and Periagoge in Strauss and Arendt Part Three. Strauss as an Émigré/German-Jewish Intellectual in US Politics ; 8. Leo Strauss and His Contemporaries: German Thought in American Exile 1940-1970 ; 9. The Curious Cultural Logic of Intellectual Migration: Rudolf Carnap and Leo Strauss ; 10. Why We Remain Jews ; Part Four. Strauss, The Straussians and Neoconservatism in the United States ; 11. Man of Peace: Rehearsing the Case Against Leo Strauss ; 12. Neoconservatism and the Strauss Connection.
  • 13. The Da Vinci Code Effect: Leo Strauss, the Neoconservatives and the Paranoid Style 14. Leo Strauss's Squid Ink ; Back matter ; Index ; Also available.