Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy

by Thomas L. Pangle

Book Overview

Leo Strauss's controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence. Now their impact is emerging into broad daylight, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, often wildly speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements.

This book, written as a corrective, is the first accurate, non-polemical, comprehensive guide to Strauss's mature political philosophy and its intellectual influence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801884403
• ISBN13: 9780801884405
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"