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 Hannah
Arendt and Leo Strauss : German Emigres and American Political Thought
After World War II by Peter Graf Kielmansegg (Editor), Horst
Mewes (Editor), Glaser-sch, Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt (Editor)
This book explores the influence of Hannah Arendt's
and Leo Strauss' background in pre-WWII Germany on their perception of
American democracy. The contributors analyze how their ^D'emigr^D'e
experience both influenced their American work and also impacted on the
formation of the discipline of political science in postwar Germany.
Arendt's and Strauss' experiences thus aptly illustrate the transfer and
transformation of political ideas in the World War II era.
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 Leo
Strauss and Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert
The influential political philosopher Leo Strauss has
been credited by conservatives with the recovery of the great tradition
of political philosophy stretching back to Plato. Among Strauss's most
enduring legacies is a strongly negative assessment of Nietzsche as the
modern philosopher most at odds with that tradition and most responsible
for the sins of twentieth-century culture--relativism, godlessness,
nihilism, and the breakdown of family values. In fact, this apparent
denunciation has become so closely associated with Strauss that it is
often seen as the very core of his thought.
In Leo
Strauss and Nietzsche, the eminent Nietzsche scholar Laurence
Lampert offers a controversial new assessment of the Strauss-Nietzsche
connection. Lampert undertakes a searching examination of the key
Straussian essay, "Note on the Plan of Nietzsche's Beyond
Good and Evil." He shows that this essay, written toward
the end of Strauss's life and placed at the center of his final work,
reveals an affinity for and debt to Nietzsche greater than Strauss's
followers allow. Lampert argues that the essay comprises the most
important interpretation of Nietzsche ever published, one that clarifies
Nietzsche's conception of nature and of human spiritual history and
demonstrates the logical relationship between the essential themes in
Nietzsche's thought--the will to power and the eternal return.
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by: Ken
Masugi, The Washington Times, February 4, 1998
Excerpt:
Who is Leo Strauss that he deserves Shadia Drury's
condemnation not only as the inspiration of the conservative resurgence
in America but also as an uncanny nihilist who preached dogmatism, an
elitist whose many influential students advocate populism and a savior
of America who would destroy its freedoms?
Strauss (1899-1973) revived the serious study of
political philosophy for generations of American scholars -- among the
most prominent being Walter Berns, Allan Bloom, Harry V. Jaffa, Harvey
Mansfield, Jr. and Thomas G. West. Their students, besides eminent
scholars in political philosophy, American politics and foreign policy,
include many who have made their mark on American politics, typically in
executive branch roles.
A German Jew who fled Adolf Hitler, Strauss did not
teach political science in any conventional way...
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