AuthorHowse, Robert
TitleLeo Strauss : Man of peace / Robert Howse
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Descript xi, 188 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Introduction: reopening the case of Leo Strauss -- Warrior morality and the fate of civilization: Strauss's encounter with Carl Schmitt and German nihilism -- Legitimacy and legality, thinking and ruling in the closed society and the world state: the Strauss/Kojแeve debate -- Strauss's Machiavelli: fallen angel and theoretical man -- Thucydides versus Machiavelli: a moral-political horizon of war and law -- Justice and progress: Strauss's assessment of modern international law -- Conclusion


SUBJECT

  1. Strauss
  2. Leo
  3. Political science -- History -- 20th century
  4. Philosophy
  5. Modern -- 20th century

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Political Science Library320.092 H866L DUE 12-12-25