Description

This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss' work is the first devoted to Strauss' thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of modern democracy, and the importance of modern classical education. This book attempts to maintain traditional scholarly standards in the hope of approaching both Strauss and his work in a dispassionate and objective manner. It contains both biographical as well as scholarly chapters aimed first and foremost at understanding the corpus of Strauss' work and also his significance as an educational thinker.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Why Leo Strauss? Four Answers and One Consideration Concerning the Usese and Disadvantages of the School for the Philosophical Life
Chapter 3 "The Second Cave": Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Education ion the Contemporaty World
Chapter 4 Strauss' Rights Pedagogy
Chapter 5 Strauss' Reading of Plato
Chapter 6 Why Leo Strauss is Not an Aristotelian: An Exploratory Study
Chapter 7 "Do No Harm": Leo Strauss and the Limits of Remedial Politics
Chapter 8 Taming the Power Elite
Chapter 9 Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Critique of the Liberal University: Postmodernism, Relativism, and the Culture Wars
10 Notes on Contributors
11 Index

Product details

Published 22 Apr 2011
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 216
ISBN 9781683938675
Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

J. G. York

Anthology Editor

Michael A. Peters

Contributor

Shadia B. Drury

Contributor

Jon Fennell

Contributor

Tim McDonough

Contributor

Heinrich Meier

Contributor

J.G York

Contributor

Michael Zuckert

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