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Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norton, Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Strauss, Leo.
Conservatism > United States.
Political science > Philosophy.
Political science > History.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Who is Leo Strauss? what is a Straussian?
  • The lion and the ass
  • Decline into the west
  • Closing the American mind
  • Getting the natural right
  • Persecution and the art of writing
  • Ancients and moderns
  • The statesman
  • On tyranny
  • Conservatism abandoned
  • The Sicilian expedition
  • Athens and Jerusalem
  • The School of Baghdad.