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Leo Strauss - Man of Peace (Paperback)
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Leo Strauss - Man of Peace (Paperback)
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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 even
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 (right and left) who warns of the dangers to free
thought and civil society when philosophers and 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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