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Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli

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Description for Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli Paperback. Leo Strauss has been blamed for providing the intellectual underpinnings of a generation of neoconservatives in political philosophy and foreign policy. This book lays out the debate surrounding Strauss by reviewing his published work and legacy since his death in 1973. It also explores Strauss's views on the revelation/reason distinction. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.

Leo Strauss has perhaps been more cited—and alternately vilified or revered—in the last ten years than during the productive years of his scholarly life. He has been blamed (or credited) for providing the intellectual underpinnings of a generation of neoconservatives in political philosophy and foreign policy. But though he may be cast as a conservative thinker who critiques modernity, to interpret him exclusively in this light is to reduce him in ways that his self-definition, as a political theorist open to both religion and philosophy, does not justify.

Kim A. Sorensen clearly lays out the debate surrounding Strauss by reviewing ... Read more

Sorensen explores Strauss's views on the revelation/reason distinction through a close examination of the final chapter in Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli. Here Strauss weighs Machiavelli's critique of religion in general and Christianity in particular, and Machiavelli's departure from the classical tradition of political philosophy dating from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. For Strauss, the "crisis of our time" has its point of origin in Machiavelli's rejection of both biblical and classical morality as guides to the efficacy of political virtue.

For Strauss, Sorensen claims, a recovery of the ancient virtues of classical political philosophy is essential. Sorensen also shows that while Strauss is accepting of reason, he is also open to revelation. In the end, he is a philosopher both of Athens and of Jerusalem.

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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268041175
SKU
V9780268041175
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About Kim A. Sorensen
Kim A. Sorensen is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Reviews for Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli
"Sorensen chooses Strauss's dense and difficult book Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958) as his meeting point with the whole problem of revelation and reason as it was understood by the German philosopher." —Perspectives on Political Science “In a short but dense work, Sorensen provides an excellent analysis of Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli, and in the process provides insight into both ... Read more

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