The Legacy of Leo Strauss by Tony Burns & James Connelly

Author:Tony Burns & James Connelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Leo Strauss, politics, philosophy, Straussians, Wolfowitz, foreign policy, democracy, history of ideas, esotericism, modernity, Aristotle, state of exception, Straussianism, post-Straussianism, Collingwood, Schmitt, Plato, Arendt, US politics, Carnap, Judaism, Jewish, Neoconservatism, Neo-conservatism
ISBN: 9781845406608
Publisher: Andrews UK LImited 2016
Published: 2016-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

2 One is tempted to coin the term reductio ad Druryem in some responses to criticisms of Strauss, the merits or otherwise of whose work is disputed, even amongst some Straussians or students of the same ( cf. Lampert, 1996; Rosen, 1987).

3 The one notable exception here is Dana Villa (2001), whose exposition of Strauss does take part of its orientation from her reading of Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the difference and possible interrelations of philosophy and politics (Villa, 2001: 278–98).

4 As Strauss put it in a letter to Kojève: ‘It is not necessary to be Aristotelian: it is sufficient to become Platonist’, in Zuckert (1996: 304 n).

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