Robert Howse's Leo Strauss: Man of Peace PDF

By Robert Howse

Leo Strauss is understood to many of us as a philosopher of the appropriate, who encouraged hawkish perspectives on nationwide safeguard and maybe endorsed battle with no limits. relocating past gossip and innuendo approximately Strauss's fans and the Bush management, this ebook offers the 1st entire research of Strauss's writings on political violence, contemplating additionally what he taught within the school room in this topic. In stark distinction to well known notion, Strauss emerges as a guy of peace, favorably disposed to foreign legislations and skeptical of imperialism - a critic of radical ideologies who warns of the risks to loose notion and civil society while intellectuals best friend themselves with hobbies that recommend violence. Robert Howse offers new readings of Strauss's war of words with fascist/Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, his debate with Alexandre Kojève approximately philosophy and tyranny, and his works on Machiavelli and Thucydides and examines Strauss's lectures on Kant's Perpetual Peace and Grotius's Rights of battle and Peace.

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