Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire /

Norton, Anne.

Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire / Anne Norton. - New Haven , London: Yale University Press, c2004. - xiv, 235 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

Who is Leo Strauss? what is a Straussian? -- The lion and the ass -- Decline into the west -- Closing the American mind -- Getting the natural right -- Persecution and the art of writing -- Ancients and moderns -- The statesman -- On tyranny -- Conservatism abandoned -- The Sicilian expedition -- Athens and Jerusalem -- The School of Baghdad.

0300104367 (cloth : alk. paper)

2004010799


Strauss, Leo.


Conservatism--United States.
Political science--Philosophy.
Political science--History.


United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

JC251.S8 / N67 2004

320.092 / NOR