Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order

by Ted V. McAllister

Book Overview

Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison of their thought and its profound influence on contemporary American conservatism.

Since the appearance in the 1950s of Strauss's Natural Right and History and Voegelin's Order and History, conservatives like Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, and Allan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608737
• ISBN13: 9780700608737
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"