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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01724-5 - Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal Paul Edward Gottfried Index More information Index abstract universals, 88 Anglo-American democracy, 40–41 , 59 accountability, political theorists, 61–62 Anglosphere, 58 aggressive democrats (streitbare anti-modernity, 43–48 Demokraten), 6 anti-semitism, 58–59 . See also Jews Allitt, Patrick, 32 anti-Straussian Right, 91 Altman, William, 95 APSA (American Political Science American Political Science Association Association), 163 (APSA), 163 Arendt, Hannah, 60 , 127 American regime, 39 , 85 Aristotle Anastaplo, George, 23 , 140–41 compatibility of ethical views with Ancients, 81–83 present age, 57 Aristotle correction of Plato’s ideal society, compatibility of ethical views with 88–89 present age, 57 Nicomachean Ethics , 57 correction of Plato’s ideal society, politeia mikta, 140 88–89 quest for political virtue, 50 Nicomachean Ethics , 57 search for political excellence, 133 politeia mikta, 140 teaching of prudence, 50 quest for political virtue, 50 treatment of philosophy, 134 search for political excellence, 133 Arkes, Hadley, 33 teaching of prudence, 50 Arnn, Larry P., 59 treatment of philosophy, 134 Aron, Raymond, 20 Plato Ashcraft, Richard, 75–76 , 162 eternal forms, 49 , 52 , 83 Atlas, James, 164 political philosophy, 48–49 authorial intention, 154–56 Strauss’ interpretation of, 81–83 authoritarian conservatives, 116 treatment of philosophy, 134 Averroes, 12 Socrates ideal city, 49–50 Bateman, Lew, viii Phaedrus dialogue, 81–83 behavioral traits, Straussians, 158 political philosophy, 48–49 Behnegar, Nasser, 46 175 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01724-5 - Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal Paul Edward Gottfried Index More information 176 Index Berensohn, Miriam, 20 versus Judaism, 77–78 Berkowitz, Peter, 17–18 patriotism and, 118–19 Berns, Walter, 117–19 Protestantism, 46–47 , 48 Between Philosophy and Religion: Straussian hermeneutic and, 42 Spinoza, the Bible and Modernity view of infl uence on American political (Polka), 77 founding, 93 Bevir, Mark, 153 Chroust, Anton-Hermann, 33 Bloom, Allan, 2 Churchill, Winston The Closing of the American Mind , Anglo-American democracy, 59 24–25 , 113 , 129 Strauss’ view of, 35 writing phases of Strauss, 52–53 Claremont Institute, 59–60 , 121–22 , Bluhm, Harald, 126 , 151–52 162–63 , 172 Bodin, Jean, 10 classical natural rights, 28–29 Bradford, M.E., 89 classical political rationalism, 52 Brenner, Michael, 14 classical rationalist approach to Breschi, Danilo, 166 philosophy, 12 Brook, Yaron, 115–16 The Closing of the American Mind Brown, David, viii (Bloom), 2 , 24–25 , 113 , 129 Buckley, William F., 111 , 112 Cohen, Hermann, 12–13 , 54 Burke, Edmund, 27 Cold War liberals, 70 Butterfi eld, Herbert, 10 comprehensive critiques, 95–105 The Concept of the Political (Schmitt), Calvin, John, 51 20–21 , 108 Calvinism conceptual criticism, 83–87 capitalism and, 46–47 Congdon, Lee, 116 in early American society, 73 The Conservative Intellectual Movement capitalism in America since 1945 (Nash), 35 Calvinism and, 46–47 conservative isolationists, 116 Protestantism and, 46–47 conservatives. See Right (conservatives) Cassirer, Ernst, 13 , 144 counter-hermeneutics Cassirer, Toni, 13 Gadamer, 99–105 Catholicism Quentin Skinner, 96–98 appeal of Strauss’s teachings among Crick, Bernard, 162 Catholic traditionalists, 42 Crisis of a House Divided political theorists, 5 (Jaffa), 113 post WWII conservatives, 32 critics of Strauss, 68–72 Thomistic understanding of natural Cropsey, Joseph, 26 law, 170–71 cultural pessimism, 126–27 Ceaser, James W., 30 Christianity Dannhauser, Werner, 23 Catholicism de Gaulle, Charles, 64 appeal of Strauss’s teachings among deity. See God/deity, concept of Catholic traditionalists, 42 democracy political theorists, 5 Anglo-American, 40–41 , 59 post WWII conservatives, 32 distinction between liberalism and, Thomistic understanding of natural 126–27 law, 170–71 liberal, 27 , 106–14 classical rationalism and, 137 relation to natural rights, 128 confl icting views of infl uence on Desch, Michael, 116 American political founding, 93–95 despotic regime, 43 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01724-5 - Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal Paul Edward Gottfried Index More information Index 177 Die Religionskritik Spinozas als German nihilism, 58–59 Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschft distinction between German (Strauss), 16 conservative revolutionaries and, Dilthey, Wilhelm, 101 65 discrimination. See prejudice German, 65 Drury, Shadia, 2–3 , 24 Gingrich, Newt, 123 God/deity, concept of early life, 11–37 John Locke, 76 American success story, 25–31 Judaism, 17 Jew in exile, 11–25 Spinoza, 18 , 76–77 postwar conservative, 31–37 Gordon, David, vii , 83–86 relation between Strauss’s hermeneutics Gordon, Peter E., 31 and, 151 Greeks Eidelberg, Paul, 140 Jewish tradition as alternative to Greek epigones, 7 rationality, 17 esoteric readings, 52–55 view of patriotism, 118 esoteric tradition, 40 Guide for the Perplexed (Maimonides), Essays on the Scientifi c Studies of Politics 54–55 (Strauss), 106–07 Gunnell, John, vii , 149–50 eternal forms, 49 , 52 , 83 Gurion, David Ben, 19 ethic of responsibility, 87 Gymnasium Philippinum, 11 ethical views, Ancients, 57 ethical virtues, 49 Halbassimilanten, 19–20 Ethics (Polka), 76–77 Havers, Grant, vii , viii exoteric readings, 52–55 appeal of Strauss’s teachings among Catholic traditionalists, 42 facism origins of universality, 79 Nietzsche and, 145 Hegel, 45 treating Straussians as quasi-fascists, Heidegger, Martin, 27 , 142 69–70 comparisons between Cassirer facticity, 103 and, 144 factual critiques, 72–81 comparisons between Weber and, fact/value dichotomy, 45–48 143–44 Ludwig von Mises, 85–86 facticity, 103 The Morals of History (Todorov), political virtues, 50 86–87 hermeneutic. See also methodology Filmer, Robert, 75 foreshortening, 99 foreshortening hermeneutic, 99 Straussian Fortin, Ernest, 5 Christianity and, 42 founders, 3–4 relation between early life and, 151 Frachon, Alain, 127 Hermeneutics as Politics (Rosen), 66–67 Franco, Francisco, 116 Hillsdale College in Michigan, 59–60 French Revolution, 44 historical relativism, 42–43 , 84 Fukuyama, Francis, 147–48 historicism, 44 Marxism and, 45 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 20 , 95–105 , 153 role in German catastrophe, 157–58 genealogical connection Strauss’ views as compared with continuity between master and Löwith’s views, 105 epigones, 7 history, intellectual, 139 political philosophy, 131–41 The History of Political Philosophy , 26 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01724-5 - Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal Paul Edward Gottfried Index More information 178 Index Hobbes project, 25–26 Kalb, James, 89 Hoeveler, David J., 8 Kelsen, Hans, 43 Husserl, Edmund, 142 Kendall, Willmoore, 32–33 , 42 The Idea of Usury: From Tribal Kennedy, Brian T., 172 Brotherhood to Universal Kennedy, John F., 119–20 Otherhood (Nelson), 47 Kesler, Charles, 34 , 60 Keyes, Allan, 33–34 ideal city Keynes, John Maynard, 60 ethical virtues, 49 Kirk, Russell, 89 , 111 social organization, 49 Klein, Jacob, 19 , 99 illiberal liberals, 6 Kojève, Alexandre, 20 illocutionary political rhetoric, 59 Koyré, Alexandre, 20 impenetrable prejudices, Straussian, Kristol, Irving, 123–25 66–67 improvised right, 115–22 Lampert, Lawrence, 6 In Defense of Liberal Democracy Lawler, Peter Augustine, 171 (Berns), 117 Left (liberalism). See liberalism (Left) intellectual Right, 71–72 Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (Lampert), 6 Interpretation , 71 Leo Strauss and the Politics of American interpretive critiques, 72–81 Empire (Norton), vii The Irony of Manifest Destiny (Pfaff), Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile 122–23 (Sheppard), 14–15 irrelevant criticisms, 38–43 Leo Strauss e la Destra Americana isolationists, conservative, 116 (Paraboschi), 3 Israel Lerner, Ralph, 23 Claremont Institute support of, 122 liberal democracy, 27 , 40–41 , 106–14 Strauss’ support of, 22–23 , 69–70 liberal illiberalism, 116–17 liberalism (Left) Jabotinsky, Ze’ev, 20 critical commentators, 2–3 Jacobi, Friedrich, 13 discrimination against Jews and, Jaffa, Harry V., 59–60 , 113 120–21 , 128 Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of distinction between democracy and, Modernity (Zank), 20 126–27 Jews. See also Judaism German politics, 13–15 discrimination, liberalism and, going beyond horizons of, 21 120–21 , 128 secret writing, 55 German, integrated identity for, 12–13 Liberalism Ancient and Modern (Strauss), Jewish moral spine, 24 62 , 64–65 , 88 Jewish tradition as alternative to Greek liberals rationality, 17 Cold War, 70 Strauss as exile, 11–25 interventionists, 114–15 Strauss’ preocupation with Jewish Lincoln, Abraham, 90–91 identity, 51 Lippmann, Walter, 27 journalistic praise of Straussians, 162 Locke, John, 27 Judaism American regime, 39 versus Christianity, 77–78 God/deity, concept of, 76 God/deity, concept of, 17 Locke, Robert, 34 neo-Orthodox, 15–16 logistikon, 48–49 role in survival of Jewish people, 17 Lord, Carnes, 126 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01724-5 - Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal Paul Edward Gottfried

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