Leo Strauss - An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Thomas L. Pangle (John E. Long Chair in Democratic Studies)
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-8439-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-8018-8439-X
Barcode:	9780801884399

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