Thomas L. (John E. Long Chair in Democratic Studies, University of Texas at Austin) Pangle 
Leo Strauss [EPUB ebook] 
An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy

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.