Leo Strauss And Angloamerican Democracy A Conservative Critique
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780875804781
Description: "Interprets Leo Strauss's political philosphy from a conservative standpoint and argues that Strauss was a Cold War liberal. Suggests inattention to Christianity is crucial to the Straussian portrayal of Anglo-American democracy as a universal regime whose eternal ideals of liberty and constitutional governmnent accord with the teachings of Plato and Aristotle, rather than the Gospels"--