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Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Leo Strauss and his alleged political influence regarding the Iraq
War have in recent years been the subject of significant media
attention, including stories in the Wall Street Journal and New
York Times. Time even called him "one of the most influential men
in American politics." With The Truth about Leo Strauss, Michael P.
and Catherine H. Zuckert challenged the many claims about this
notoriously complex thinker. Now, with Leo Strauss and the Problem
of Political Philosophy, they turn their attention to a more
comprehensive interpretation of Strauss' thought as a whole. For
Strauss, political philosophy presented a "problem" to which there
have been a variety of solutions proposed over the course of
Western history. Strauss' work, they show, revolved around
recovering - and restoring-political philosophy to its original
Socratic form. Since positivism and historicism represented two
intellectual currents that undermined the possibility of a Socratic
political philosophy, the first part of the book is devoted to
Strauss' critique of these two positions. Then the authors explore
Strauss' interpretation of both ancient and modern canonical
political philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli,
and Locke. Strauss' often-unconventional readings of these
philosophers, they argue, pointed to solutions to the problem of
political philosophy. Finally, the authors examine Strauss' thought
in the context of the twentieth century, when his chief
interlocutors were Schmitt, Husserl, Heidegger, and Nietzsche. The
book ultimately shows Strauss' writings as an attempt to reveal how
characteristics of ancient and modern thought derive from different
modes of solving the problem of political philosophy and why he
considered the ancient solution superior.
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