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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465414203321

Titolo

Leo Strauss, education, and political thought / / edited by J. G. York and Michael A. Peters ; contributors, Shadia B. Drury [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

9781611470550

1611470552

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

320.092

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Leo Strauss, Education, AndPolitical Thought  ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Leo Strauss: Reading between the Lines; Why Leo Strauss?: Four Answers and One Considerationconcerning the Uses and Disadvantages of the School for the Philosophical Life; ''The Second Cave'': Leo Strauss and the Possibility ofEducation in the Contemporary World; Strauss's Rights Pedagogy; Strauss's New Reading of Plato; Why Leo Strauss Is Not an Aristotelian: An ExploratoryStudy; ''Do No Harm'': Leo Strauss and the Limits of RemedialPolitics; Taming the Power Elite

Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Critique of the Liberal University: Postmodernism, Relativism, and the CultureWarsNotes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss'' work is the first devoted to Strauss'' thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of modern democracy and the importance of modern classical education.