Leo Strauss and the neoconservative critique of the liberal university

Postmodernism, relativism and the culture wars

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12906134
AutoresMichael A Peters (0000-0002-1482-2975, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume49
Fascículo1
Páginas11-32
Data de publicação2008-02-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17508480701813524
OpenAlexW2036628449
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas31

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