ENGLISH

The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism

By William H.F. Altman , Michael Zank

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2010
ISBN
0739147374, 9780739147375
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13119402 bytes)
Pages
618\620
Time added
2014-05-28 16:58:21

Description

A scintillating but scholarly guide to the thinking of Leo Strauss that situates his thought in the context of National Socialism. By destroying any middle ground between Athens and Jerusalem, Strauss skillfully undermined modernity's secular bulwark against political theology. Once National Socialism is understood as an atheistic religion re-enacted by post-Revelation philosophers, the German avatar of Plato's Athenian Stranger can be recognized as its principal theoretician.

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