Leo Strauss : Man of Peace Paperback / softback
by Robert (New York University) Howse
Paperback / softback
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Leo Strauss is known to many people as a thinker of the right, who inspired hawkish views on national security and perhaps advocated war without limits.
Moving beyond gossip and innuendo about Strauss's followers and the Bush administration, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Strauss's writings on political violence, considering also what he taught in the classroom on this subject.
In stark contrast to popular perception, Strauss emerges as a man of peace, favorably disposed to international law and skeptical of imperialism - a critic of radical ideologies who warns of the dangers to free thought and civil society when intellectuals ally themselves with movements that advocate violence.
Robert Howse provides new readings of Strauss's confrontation with fascist/Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, his debate with Alexandre Kojeve about philosophy and tyranny, and his works on Machiavelli and Thucydides and examines Strauss's lectures on Kant's Perpetual Peace and Grotius's Rights of War and Peace.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/09/2014
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- ISBN:9781107427679
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/09/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107427679