Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy write by Grant Havers. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream readers of Strauss have either condemned him from the Left as an extreme right-wing opponent of liberal democracy or celebrated him from the Right as a traditional defender of Western civilization. Rejecting both portrayals, Grant Havers shifts the debate beyond the conventional parameters stating that Strauss was neither a man of the Far Right nor a conservative but. in fact a secular Cold War liberal. In Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy Havers contends that the most troubling implication of Straussianism is that it provides an ideological rationale for the aggressive spread of democratic values on a global basis while ignoring the preconditions that make these values possible. Concepts such as the rule of law, constitutional government, Christian morality, and the separation of church and state are not easily transplanted beyond the historic confines of Anglo-American civilization, as recent wars to spread democracy have demonstrated.
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America write by Paul E. Gottfried. This book was released on 2011-12-29. Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. The conservative movement that reached out to Strauss and his legacy was extremely fluid and lacked a self-confident leadership. Conservative activists and journalists felt a desperate need for academic acceptability, which they thought Strauss and his disciples would furnish. They also became deeply concerned with the problem of 'value relativism', which self-described conservatives thought Strauss had effectively addressed. But until recently, neither Strauss nor his disciples have considered themselves to be 'conservatives'. Contrary to another misconception, Straussians have never wished to convert Americans to ancient political ideals and practices, except in a very selective rhetorical fashion. Strauss and his disciples have been avid champions of American modernity, and 'timeless' values as interpreted by Strauss and his followers often look starkly contemporary.
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy write by Grant Havers. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream readers of Strauss have either condemned him from the Left as an extreme right-wing opponent of liberal democracy or celebrated him from the Right as a traditional defender of Western civilization. Rejecting both portrayals, Grant Havers shifts the debate beyond the conventional parameters stating that Strauss was neither a man of the Far Right nor a conservative but. in fact a secular Cold War liberal. In Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy Havers contends that the most troubling implication of Straussianism is that it provides an ideological rationale for the aggressive spread of democratic values on a global basis while ignoring the preconditions that make these values possible. Concepts such as the rule of law, constitutional government, Christian morality, and the separation of church and state are not easily transplanted beyond the historic confines of Anglo-American civilization, as recent wars to spread democracy have demonstrated.
Cloaked in Virtue
Cloaked in Virtue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cloaked in Virtue write by Nicholas Xenos. This book was released on 2010-05-26. Cloaked in Virtue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is now commonly acknowledged that numerous key players in and around the Bush administration’s planning of the Iraq invasion were connected through a common background in the political philosophy of Leo Strauss, a German-born University of Chicago professor who died in 1973. These Straussian "neocons" were held responsible for exploiting the September 11th attacks in order to further their own foreign policy agenda. Cloaked in Virtue is the first book to take a critical view of the political ideas of Leo Strauss himself by careful attention to his own writings before and after his emigration to the United States. The result is a critical examination of the political theory of Leo Strauss, lifting the veil of intentional obfuscation, and its influence on the neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics and international relations.
The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty write by João Carlos Espada. This book was released on 2016-06-03. The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joao Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the core pillars of the Free World. Giving a broad overview of the tradition through summaries of the careers and ideas of fourteen of its key thinkers, neglected despite having been tremendously influential in the tradition of liberty, the author engages with current set ideas about the meaning of 'liberal' and 'conservative' to offer an engaging, intellectual case for liberal democracy.
