Paul Edward Gottfried

Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-107-67571-1
EAN: 9781107675711
Produktnummer: 12939861
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 194 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 252 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 252

Über den Autor

Paul Gottfried is Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of numerous books, including Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right, The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium and After Liberalism.