Review essay: Pyrrhic Victories and a Trojan Horse in the Strauss wars

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (2):294-323 (2009)
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A careful reading of Harvey C. Mansfield's Manlines s and the recent translation of Daniel Tanguay's Leo Strauss; une biographie intellectuelle reveals that neither text supports the view that Leo Strauss was a harmless if qualified friend of liberal democracy. Key Words: Leo Strauss • Straussians • Nietzsche • Carl Schmitt • Heidegger • National Socialism • Liberalism • Redlichkeit • Hobbes • Hegel • Viktor Trivas

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William H.F. Altman
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The Hindenburg Line of the Strauss wars.William H. F. Altman - 2010 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (1):118-153.

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The Concept of the Political.Carl Schmitt - 1996 - University of Chicago Press.
An introduction to metaphysics.Martin Heidegger - 1953/2000 - New Haven,: Yale University Press.
Natural Right and History (Chicago, 1953).Leo Strauss - 1953 - The Correspondence Between Ethical Egoists and Natural Rights Theorists is Considerable Today, as Suggested by a Comparison of My" Recent Work in Ethical Egoism," American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (2):1-15.
The political philosophy of Hobbes.Leo Strauss - 1936 - Oxford,: The Clarendon press.

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