
Leo Strauss
An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy
Thomas L. Pangle(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 20. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8018-8440-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Pangle... brings to his task the remarkable erudition, and his volume may be said to have succeeded in restoring, and perhaps even deepening, the more sober view of Strauss's intention that prevailed in his lifetime and for a decade or so after death. -- Steven J. Lenzner Claremont Review of Books 2007 Pangle's bibliography at the end alone is worth the price of the book. -- Benjamin Wiker Crisis Magazine 2007More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-8440-5 (9780801884405)
DOI
10.56021/9780801884399
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Thomas L. Pangle holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His many acclaimed publications include The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age and Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham, both published by Johns Hopkins. He has also published a number of translations of Platonic dialogues, including The Laws of Plato and The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Relativism: The Crux of Our Liberal Culture
2. The Revival of Classical Political Philosophy
3. The Rediscovery and Reassessment of the Foundations of Modernity
4. Strauss's Legacy in Political Science
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Introduction
1. Relativism: The Crux of Our Liberal Culture
2. The Revival of Classical Political Philosophy
3. The Rediscovery and Reassessment of the Foundations of Modernity
4. Strauss's Legacy in Political Science
Notes
Works Cited
Index