Leo Strauss and the neoconservative critique of the liberal university
Postmodernism, relativism and the culture wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12906134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael A Peters (0000-0002-1482-2975, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-32 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17508480701813524 |
| OpenAlex | W2036628449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
This paper examines the neoconservative critique of the university and particularly the attack on multiculturalism and postmodernism that initiated the culture wars. It seeks to explain these developments by an analysis of the thought of Leo Strauss. The paper begins by providing an introduction to US neoconservatism and latest challenges to it from within signaling its end before reviewing the roles of Allan Bloom and Lynne Cheney in the neoconservative rewriting of history and the humanities which finds its source in Strauss' critique of radical historicism
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Historicism · Liberalism · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Relativism · Rewriting · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |