Leo Strauss : An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy Paperback / softback
by Thomas L. (John E. Long Chair in Democratic Studies, University of Texas at Austin) Pangle
Part of the The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought series
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Leo Strauss's controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence.
Now their impact is emerging into broad daylight, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, often wildly speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements. This book, written as a corrective, is the first accurate, non-polemical, comprehensive guide to Strauss's mature political philosophy and its intellectual influence.
Thomas L. Pangle opens a pathway into Strauss's major works with one question: How does Strauss's philosophic thinking contribute to our democracy's civic renewal and to our culture's deepening, critical self-understanding? This book includes a synoptic critical survey of writings from scholars who have extended Strauss's influence into the more practical, sub-philosophic fields of social and political science and commentary.
Pangle shows how these analysts have in effect imported Straussian impulses into a "new" kind of political and social science.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:20/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780801884405
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:20/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780801884405