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Reading Leo Strauss

Politics, Philosophy, Judaism

Autor: S.B. Smith

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Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: University of Chicago Press

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Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purpo...

Informații despre carte

Autor

S.B. Smith

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2006

Pagini

256

EAN

9780226764023

Enbook ID

04549490

Editura

University of Chicago Press

Greutate

500

Dimensiuni

184 x 234 x 21

Descriere completă

Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy - perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in "Reading Leo Strauss", Smith shows that Strauss's defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and the extreme Right. Smith asserts that this philosophical skepticism defined Strauss's thought. It was as a skeptic, Smith argues, that Strauss considered the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between reason and revelation - a conflict Strauss dubbed the "theologico-political problem". Calling this problem "the theme of my investigations," Strauss asked the same fundamental question throughout his life: what is the relation of the political order to revelation in general and Judaism in particular? Smith organizes his book with this question, first addressing Strauss's views on religion and then examining his thought on philosophical and political issues. In his investigation of these philosophical and political issues, Smith assesses Strauss's attempt to direct the teaching of political science away from the examination of mass behavior and interest group politics and toward the study of the philosophical principles on which politics are based. With his provocative, lucid essays, Smith goes a long way toward establishing a distinctive form of Straussian liberalism.