The Truth about Leo Strauss

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Preface
Introduction: Mr. Strauss Goes to Washington?

 

Part I: Strauss

 

Chapter One. The Return to the Ancients: An Overview of the Straussian Project
Strauss's Philosophical Project
Strauss's Departure from Heidegger and Nietzsche
Strauss's Analysis of the Contemporary Crisis
Strauss's Way Back to Ancient Political Philosophy
Strauss's Rereading of the History of Philosophy
Political Philosophy and Politics

Chapter Two. Strauss—Modernity—America
Proposition 1: America Is Modern
Proposition 2: Modernity Is Bad
Proposition 3: America Is Good
Straussian Ambiguities

Chapter Three. Leo Strauss as a Postmodern Political Thinker
The Problem of the Postmodern
Strauss's Postmodernism: After Nietzsche
Strauss's Postmodernism: After Heidegger
Derridean Postmodernism
Contrasting the Two Forms of Postmodernism

Chapter Four. The Man Who Gave Away the Secrets: On Esotericism
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Looking for Secrets in All the Wrong Places

Chapter Five. Leo Strauss—Teacher of Evil?
Strauss and the "Tyrannical Teaching"
The Thrasymachean Thesis
The Machiavellian Moment
Strauss and Schmitt

Part II: Straussians

Chapter Six. The Emergence of the Straussian Study of America
Water Berns: The Virtuous Republic
Martin Diamond: Finding the Founding
Harry Jaffa: Aristotelianizing America

Chapter Seven: Straussian Geography

Conclusion
Notes
Index