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Strauss, Leo
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One of the grand mysteries of the 21st century, which may well have to be explained in the 22nd century, is how Cornel West became a household name, even a celebrity, while most Americans have never heard of Leo Strauss. The supreme irony is that Strauss's influence is far more pervasive than West's: Strauss's acolytes have penetrated American government and higher education, and have proudly influenced the nation's social and public policies. In the Bush Administration itself there are numerous people who have been either taught by Strauss or who are disciples of his ideas—most notably Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Cambone, the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and Abram Shulsky, Director of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans; and there are those outside of government with great influence on American domestic and foreign policy, such as William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard .
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In that review of the Strauss book, Jaffa's scholarship is criticized as not being faithful to the lessons of his teacher, Leo Strauss. This is especially the case regarding Jaffa's work on Lincoln. In particular, Lenzner states that Lincoln's "attempt to synthesize liberal democracy and Christianity" is "distant" from Strauss's work, and that Strauss would have been "doubtful" about any such synthesis. This seems to be somewhat akin to the arguments Anastaplo makes against Lincoln.
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Leo Strauss repeatedly defends the political realism of Thrasymachus and Machiavelli (see, for example, his Natural Right and History, p. 106). This view of the world is clearly manifest in the foreign policy of the current administration in the United States.
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To quote Leo Baeck Institute Trustee, Professor, and author Henry Feingold, this book is "well-researched, unfailingly interesting, and lucidly written. It is remarkable that someone from outside chabad has been able to write an inside story of Lubavitch - and do it so well".
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Leo Strauss gehörte zu den gelehrtesten und intellektuell attraktivsten deutsch-jüdischen Emigranten, die in den dreissiger Jahren aus Deutschland in die USA geflohen waren. Um ihn herum entwickelte sich eine neokonservative politologische Schule, die sogenannten «Straussianer». Durch diese ist Strauss in den USA oftmals eine geradezu kulthafte Verehrung zuteil geworden. Im deutschsprachigen Raum fand sein Werk dagegen nur wenig Resonanz. Es liegen fast keine Übersetzungen seiner nach der Emigration auf englisch verfassten Arbeiten vor. Seine deutschsprachig verfassten Texte aus der Zeit der Weimarer Republik sind, mit Ausnahme seiner luziden «Anmerkungen» zu Carl Schmitts «Der Begriff des Politischen» (1932), nicht in Neuauflagen greifbar.
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Quelques références aux travaux de Paul Kraus se trouvent dans Philosophie und Gesetz, de Leo Strauss (tr. fr. par Rémi Brague in Maimonide. P.U.F., 1988. Sur la personnalité de Paul Kraus, voir Charles Kuentz, Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte, 27 (1946), pages 431-441.
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