Neoconservatism and Leo Strauss
The place of a liberal education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12906225 |
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| Authors | Joe York (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-80 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-15 |
| 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 | 10.1080/17508480701813557 |
| OpenAlex | W1979615367 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper is concerned with the work of Leo Strauss, specifically his two essays on liberal education. Strauss is often claimed to be a founding thinker of neoconservatism and while much scholarship has been produced analyzing his work, very little discusses his essays on liberal education and how these fit within his larger project. This essay begins to fill that void by outlining the two essays and discussing their relation to his projects of critiquing both modernity and western liberal democracy. The essay further draws out some tentative connections between these essays of Strauss's and the larger landscape of neoconservative thinkers currently in favor within the United States government
Democracy · Epistemology · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberal democracy · Liberal education · Liberalism · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Scholarship · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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