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Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy
By (author) Zuckert Michael P Zuckert Catherine H
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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 magazine even called him OC one of the most influential men in American politics.OCO With The Truth about Leo Strauss, Michael and Catherine Zuckert challenged the many claims and speculations about this notoriously complex thinker. Now, with Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy, they turn their attention to a searching and more comprehensive interpretation of StraussOCOs thought as a whole, using the many manifestations of the OC problem of political philosophyOCO as their touchstone.aFor Strauss, political philosophy presented a OC problemOCO to which there have been a variety of solutions proposed over the course of Western history. StraussOCOs work, they show, revolved around recoveringOCoand restoringOCopolitical 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 StraussOCOs critique of these two positions. Then, the authors explore StraussOCOs interpretation of the history of philosophy and both ancient and modern canonical political philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Locke. StraussOCOs often-unconventional readings of these philosophers, they argue, pointed to solutions to the problem of political philosophy. Finally, the authors examine StraussOCOs thought in the context of the twentieth century, when his chief interlocutors were Schmitt, Husserl, Heidegger, and Nietzsche.aThe most penetrating and capacious treatment of the political philosophy of this complex and often misunderstood thinker, from his early years to his last works, Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy reveals StraussOCOs writings as an attempt to show that the distinctive characteristics of ancient and modern thought derive from different modes of solving the problem of political philosophy and reveal why he considered the ancient solution both philosophically and politically superior.
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Publisher | The University of Chicago Press
Published date | 17 Sep 2014
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Pages | 400
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ISBN | 978-0-2261-3587-8
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BISAC | philosophy / political
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