Leo Strauss

Strauss, Leo - 1899–1973, American philosopher, b. Hesse, Germany. Strauss fled the Nazis and came to the United States, where he taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1949–68). Strauss is known for his controversial interpretations of political philosophers, including Xenophon and Plato. Strauss wrote an influential critique of modern political philosophy, i.e., philosophy since Read More...

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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Its Basis and Its Genesis
by Leo Strauss. 176 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Preface to the American Edition

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I: Introduction

II: The Moral Basis

III: Aristotelianism

IV: Aristocratic Virtue

V: The State and Religion

VI: History

VII: The New Morality

VIII: The New Political Science

Index
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History of Political Philosophy ("Plato 427-347 b.c." by Leo Strauss begins on p. 7 and "Marsilius of Padua circa 1275-1342" by Leo Strauss begins on p. 227)
by Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey. 790 pgs.

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Rand McNally Political Science Series Morton Grodzins, Advisory Editor

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Plato 427-347 B.C.

Aristotle 384-322 B.C.

Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.

St. Augustine 354-430

Alfarabi Circa 870-950

Moses Maimonides 1135-1204

St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274

Marsilius of Padua Circa 1275-1342

Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527

Martin Luther 1483-1546 John Calvin 1509-1564

Richard Hooker 1553-1600

Francis Bacon 1561-1626

Hugo Grotius 1583-1645

Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679

Rene Descartes 1596-1650

John Milton 1608-1674

Benedict Spinoza 1632-1677

John Locke 1632-1704

Montesquieu 1689-1755

David Hume 1711-1776

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778

Adam Smith 1723-1790

The Federalist 1787-1788

Thomas Paine 1737-1809

Edmund Burke 1729-1797

Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832 James Mill 1773-1836

Georg W. F. Hegel 1770-1831

Alexis De Tocqueville 1805-1859

John Stuart Mill 1806-1873

Karl Marx 1818-1883

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900

John Dewey 1859-1952

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Plato: Totalitarian or Democrat? ("On Classical Political Philosophy" by Leo Strauss begins on p. 153)
by Thomas Landon Thorson. 186 pgs.

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Introduction

I Ancestor of Totalitarianism

Plato and the Perfect State

Plato as Enemy of the Open Society

II Ancestor of Democracy

Plato as an Enemy of Democracy: A Rejoinder

Plato and the Moral Foundation of Democracy

III Criteria of Interpretation

On Classical Political Philosophy

Plato's Theory of Ideas
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Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics (Chap. V "An Epilogue" by Leo Strauss)
by Herbert J. Storing. 344 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

I: Voting Studies

Appendix. the American Voter

II: The Science Of Administration Herbert A. Simon

III: The Group Approach Arthur F. Bentley

IV: Scientific Propaganda Harold D. Lasswell

V An Epilogue

Index of Names

Index of Names
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Piety, Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides, in Humanitas
by Emil A. Kleinhaus. 29 pgs.

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The Ambivalence of Classic Natural Right: Leo Strauss on Philosophy, Morality, and Statesmanship, in Perspectives on Political Science
by Marc D. Guerra. 6 pgs.

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Community and Political Thought Today (Chap. 12 "The Illiberal Leo Strauss")
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Dale McConkey. 244 pgs.

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There is a crisis in America revolving around social and political life that the contributors to this volume believe has provoked a renewed attention to the issue of community in political thought. That attention is found most prominently in the "communitarian" movement, but it also finds expression in the views of the prominent political thinkers of our time.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Concept of Moral Ecology

NOTES

2: Are Communitarians "Premodern" or "Postmodern"? The Place of Communitarian Thought in Contemporary Political Theory

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3: How Much of Communitarianism Is Left (and Right)?

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4: Does Robert Bellah Care About History?

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5: Universal Benevolence, Adjective Justice, and the Rousseauean Way

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6: Communitarianism and the Federal Idea

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7: Readings of Therapeutic Culture: From Philip Rieff to Robert Bellah

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8: Advice from a Tocquevillian Liberal: Arendt, Tocqueville, and the Liberal-Communitarian Debate

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9: Liberal Ironism and the Decay of Citizenship

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10: Bloom's Ineffectual Response to Rorty: Pragmatism, Existentialism, and American Political Thought Today PETER AUGUSTINE LAWLER

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11: Romanticism, Cultural Literacy, and the Great Books: The Goals of Education

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12: The Illiberal Leo Strauss

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13: The Experience of Totalitarianism and the Recovery of Nature: Reflections on Philosophy and Community in the Thought of Solzhenitsyn, Havel, and Strauss

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14: The Universal and the Particular: Of Nations and Empires in Raymond Aron's Thought

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For Further Reading

Index

About the Contributors
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Reconsidering American Liberalism: The Troubled Odyssey of the Liberal Idea ("Straussian Conservatism and American Politics" begins on p. 255)
by James P. Young. 446 pgs.

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In a survey of American political thought unrivaled in its breadth, Young gives voice not just to Locke, Jefferson, and Madison but also to Rawls, Shklar, Kateb, Wolin, and Walzer. To the problems facing Lincoln and Dewey, he brings modern feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, and the current conservative backlash. Broadly informed, scrupulously fair, and marvelously clear, Reconsidering American Liberalism is a tour de force of historical exposition and contemporary analysis as well as significant contribution to the future of liberal thought.

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Preface And Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Role of Liberalism in American Politics

1: The Ambiguous Legacy of Puritanism

2: John Locke and the Theory of Liberal Constitutionalism

Conclusions

3: Liberalism, Republicanism, and Revolution

4: Liberalism, Republicanism, and the Constitution

5: Defining the Constitutional Text and the Emergence of Party Politics

6: Some Notes on Jacksonian Democracy

7: Abolition and the Crisis of Liberalism

8: Laissez-Faire Conservatism and the Legitimation of Corporate Capitalism

9: The Dilemmas of Populist Reform

Conclusion

10: The Problem of Progressivism

11: The New Deal and the Apotheosis of Reform

12: Liberalism in Search of New Directions

13: Race, Gender, Difference, and Equality

14: Liberalism in Retreat: The Conservative Critique

15: Rights-Based Liberalism

16: Problems of Liberalism: Rights, Economy, Community, and the State

17: Conclusion

Notes

About the Book and Author

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Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism ("From Legitimacy to Dictatorship--and Back Again: Leo Strauss's Critique of the Anti-liberalism of Carl Schmitt" begins on p. 56)
by David Dyzenhaus. 324 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Carl Schmitt?

Part I: Political Theory and Law

Carl Schmitt's Critique Or Liberalism: Systematic Reconstruction and Countercriticism

The Concept Or" Political: A Key to Understanding Carl Schmitt'S Constitutional Theory

From Legitimacy to Dictatorship -- and Back Again: Leo Strauss's Critique of the Anti-Liberalism Of Carl Schmitt

Conclusion: Liberalism and the Horizon Beyond Liberalism

Notes

Hostis Not Inimicus Toward A Theory of the Public In the Work of Carl Schmitt

Pluralism and the Crisis Or Parliamentary Democracy

Liberalism as A "Metaphysical System": The Methodological Structure of Carl Schmitt'S Critique of Political Rationalism

Carl Schmitt and the Paradox Of Liberal Democracy

Part II: Legal Theory and Politics

Carl Schmitt on Sovereignty And Constituent Power

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The Dilemmas Or Dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and Constitutional Emergency Powers

Conclusion

Revolutions and Constitutions: Hannah Arendt's Challenge to Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt's Internal Critique Of Liberal Constitutionalism: Verfassungslehre as A Response to the Weimar State Crisis

Notes

Notes on Contributors

Index
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The American Moralist: On Law, Ethics, and Government
by George Anastaplo. 626 pgs.

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Also by George Anastaplo

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PROLOGUE

PRINCIPLES and QUESTIONS

A.: The Old Way

C.: The New Ways

ISSUES of the DAY

A.: Catalogues of "Cases"

B.: The Use and Abuse of the First Amendment

C.: Public Opinion and Majority Rule

D.: Nature and Revelation

E. Sovereignty of the Law

F.: Politics and Government

G.: Lessons from Abroad

37: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND STATESMANSHIP

EPILOGUE

INDEX
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Political Science: The State of the Discipline II (Chap. 1 "Texts and Canons: the Status of the 'Great Books' in Political Theory")
by Ada W. Finifter. 538 pgs.

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Theory and Method

1: Texts and Canons: The Status of the "Great Books" in Political Theory

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

2: Political Theory in the 1980s: Perplexity Amidst Diversity

Notes

Bibliography

Additional Bibliography

3: Feminist Challenges to Political Science

Notes

Bibliography

4: Formal Rational Choice Theory: A Cumulative Science of Politics

Concluding Comments

Notes

Bibliography

5: The Comparative Method

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

6: The State of Quantitative Political Methodology

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Political Processes and Individual Political Behavior

7: Comparative Political Parties: Research and Theory

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

8: The Not So Simple Act of Voting

Notes

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9: The New Look in Public Opinion Research

Bibliography

Notes

10: Expanding Disciplinary Boundaries: Black, Latino, and Racial Minority Group Politics in Political Science

Conclusion

Notes

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11: Citizens, Contexts, and Politics

Conclusion: Putting the Puzzle Back Together

Bibliography

12: Political Communication: Scope, Progress, Promise

Conclusions

Bibliography

Political Institutions of the State

13: Legislatures: Individual Purpose and Institutional Performance

Conclusions: Behavior, Institutions, and Theory

Notes

Bibliography

14: Public Law and Judicial Politics

15: Political Executives and Their Officials

Conclusion

Bibliography

16: Public Administration: The State of the Field

Notes

Bibliography

Nations and Their Relationships

17: Comparative Politics

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

18: Global Political Economy

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Conclusions

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Appendix

Contributors

Index of Cited Authors
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Masters: Portraits of Great Teachers (Chap. 16 "Leo Strauss: Becoming Naive Again")
by Joseph Epstein. 263 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Christian Gauss

2: Morris R. Cohen Fifty Years Later

3: Alfred North Whitehead: Plato's Lost Dialogue

4: Teggart of Berkeley

5: Nadia Boulanger

6: F. O. Matthiessen

7: Arthur O. Lovejoy

8: Yvor Winters of Stanford

9: John William Miller

10: Ruth Benedict

11: John Crowe Ransom

12: Hannah Arendt

13: The Education of a Scientist

14: I. A. Richards

15: C. S. Lewis as a Teacher

16: Leo Strauss: Becoming Naïve Again
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Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Philosophy, in The Review of Metaphysics
by Stanley Rosen. 24 pgs.

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The Ambivalence of Classic Natural Right: Leo Strauss on Philosophy, Morality, and Statesmanship, in Perspectives on Political Science
by Marc D. Guerra. 6 pgs.

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Destruktion or Recovery? Leo Strauss's Critique of Heidegger, in The Review of Metaphysics
by Steven B. Smith. 33 pgs.

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Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor, in Free Inquiry
by Shadia B. Drury. 3 pgs.

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