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Leo Strauss, Education, and Political Thought.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611470550
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Leo Strauss, Education, and Political ThoughtDDC classification:
  • 320.092
LOC classification:
  • JC251.S8L44 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Leo Strauss, Education, And Political Thought -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Leo Strauss: Reading between the Lines -- Why Leo Strauss?: Four Answers and One Consideration concerning the Uses and Disadvantages of the School for the Philosophical Life -- ''The Second Cave'': Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Education in the Contemporary World -- Strauss's Rights Pedagogy -- Strauss's New Reading of Plato -- Why Leo Strauss Is Not an Aristotelian: An Exploratory Study -- ''Do No Harm'': Leo Strauss and the Limits of Remedial Politics -- Taming the Power Elite -- Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Critique of the Liberal University: Postmodernism, Relativism, and the Culture Wars -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Leo Strauss, Education, And Political Thought -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Leo Strauss: Reading between the Lines -- Why Leo Strauss?: Four Answers and One Consideration concerning the Uses and Disadvantages of the School for the Philosophical Life -- ''The Second Cave'': Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Education in the Contemporary World -- Strauss's Rights Pedagogy -- Strauss's New Reading of Plato -- Why Leo Strauss Is Not an Aristotelian: An Exploratory Study -- ''Do No Harm'': Leo Strauss and the Limits of Remedial Politics -- Taming the Power Elite -- Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Critique of the Liberal University: Postmodernism, Relativism, and the Culture Wars -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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.

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