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.
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