1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910349543503321

Autore

Armon Adi

Titolo

Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America / / by Adi Armon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-24389-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 226 p. 1 illus.)

Disciplina

180-190

191

Soggetti

Philosophy - History

Political science - Philosophy

Political science

History of Philosophy

Political Philosophy

Political Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Political Philosophy of Strauss--Its Basis and Its Genesis -- Chapter 3: Strauss' Marx -- Chapter 4: Note on the Plan of Strauss' The City and Man -- Chapter 6: Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book-length examination of the impact Leo Strauss’ immigration to the United States had on this thinking. Adi Armon weaves together a close reading of unpublished seminars Strauss taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s with an interpretation of his later works, all of which were of course written against the backdrop of the Cold War. First, the book describes the intellectual environment that shaped the young Strauss’ worldview in the Weimar Republic, tracing those aspects of his thought that changed and others that remained consistent up until his immigration to America. Armon then goes on to explore the centrality of Karl Marx to Strauss’s intellectual biography. By analyzing an unpublished seminar Strauss taught with Joseph Cropsey at the University of Chicago in 1960, Armon shows how Strauss’ fragmentary, partial engagement with



Marx in writing obscured the important role that Marxism actually played as an intellectual challenge to his later political thinking. Finally, the book explores the manifestations of Straussian doctrine in postwar America through reading Strauss’ The City and Man (1964) as a representative of his political teaching.