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Perspectives on Political Science, 2016
ABSTRACTRobert Howse's book on Leo Strauss tries to defend Strauss by emphasizing how different he was from today's “Straussians.” In Howse's telling, Strauss's best-known followers favor war and oppression, though Strauss himself did not. To make this case, Howse relies not only on absurd caricatures of Strauss's students but on highly distorted (or ...
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ABSTRACTRobert Howse's book on Leo Strauss tries to defend Strauss by emphasizing how different he was from today's “Straussians.” In Howse's telling, Strauss's best-known followers favor war and oppression, though Strauss himself did not. To make this case, Howse relies not only on absurd caricatures of Strauss's students but on highly distorted (or ...
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Rousseau, Leo Strauss, and Denaturalization
dianoesisRousseau’s concept of denaturalization refers to the process of transition from the unhappy and corrupt modern man to the citizen of the Social Contract. The project is contradictory and fails. Denaturalization is incomplete and wrong. The problem, according to Strauss, comes down to choosing the right natural foundation for a “good life”.
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