Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire /
Anne Norton.
- New Haven : 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, 1899-1973
Conservatism--United States. Political science--Philosophy. Political science--History.