Exile and the Demos
Leo Strauss in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3971700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy B Strong (0000-0001-5417-6253, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 715-726 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2013.825092 |
| OpenAlex | W2075829994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article explores the political, as opposed to the philosophical, impact of Leo Strauss’s exile in America on his thought. After a consideration of anti-Semitism and the importance Strauss attached to being a Jew, I argue that the fact that in America he no longer wrote in his Muttersprache but in English was central to his becoming a political theorist rather than a philosopher. Whereas as a philosopher he was unable to speak to the demos, as a political theorist what he needed was a group of “rhetors” who would carry a particular message to the demos
Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |