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Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This is the first book-length examination of the impact Leo
Strauss' immigration to the United States had on this thinking. Adi
Armon weaves together a close reading of unpublished seminars
Strauss taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s
with an interpretation of his later works, all of which were of
course written against the backdrop of the Cold War. First, the
book describes the intellectual environment that shaped the young
Strauss' worldview in the Weimar Republic, tracing those aspects of
his thought that changed and others that remained consistent up
until his immigration to America. Armon then goes on to explore the
centrality of Karl Marx to Strauss's intellectual biography. By
analyzing an unpublished seminar Strauss taught with Joseph Cropsey
at the University of Chicago in 1960, Armon shows how Strauss'
fragmentary, partial engagement with Marx in writing obscured the
important role that Marxism actually played as an intellectual
challenge to his later political thinking. Finally, the book
explores the manifestations of Straussian doctrine in postwar
America through reading Strauss' The City and Man (1964) as a
representative of his political teaching.
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