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Leo Strauss: Man of Peace

Autor Robert Howse
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2014

Subliniem apariția acestui volum semnat de Robert Howse, care funcționează ca o monografie critică esențială pentru reevaluarea moștenirii intelectuale a lui Leo Strauss. Publicată sub egida Cambridge University Press, lucrarea deconstruiește mitul conform căruia Strauss ar fi fost arhitectul ideologic al militarismului neoconservator american. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în rigoarea cu care autorul explorează sursele primare, inclusiv notele de curs și corespondența privată, pentru a-l prezenta pe Strauss nu ca pe un promotor al forței brute, ci ca pe un „om al păcii”, sceptic față de ideologiile radicale și profund atașat de valorile societății civile.

Structura cărții urmărește o progresie logică, de la confruntarea lui Strauss cu nihilismul german și juriul nazist Carl Schmitt, până la analiza profundă a operelor lui Machiavelli și Thucydides. Un punct central îl reprezintă capitolul dedicat dreptului internațional modern, unde Howse demonstrează afinitatea lui Strauss pentru ordinea juridică globală. Această perspectivă este o alternativă necesară la Cloaked in Virtue de Nicholas Xenos pentru cursurile de filosofie politică, cu avantajul că Robert Howse nu se limitează la o critică a „straussienilor” contemporani, ci se întoarce la textele fundamentale ale filosofului. În contextul operei sale, Howse continuă preocupările din The Federal Vision privind legitimitatea guvernării, aplicând aici o lentilă filosofică asupra violenței politice. Recomandăm acest volum pentru modul în care reușește să clarifice distincția dintre interpretările politice post-factum și gândirea originală a lui Strauss.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107427679
ISBN-10: 1107427673
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la științe politice care doresc să depășească clișeele jurnalistice despre Leo Strauss. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care filosofia clasică poate informa dezbaterile moderne despre război, pace și drept internațional. Este un argument solid pentru recuperarea unui gânditor complex dincolo de etichetele partizane, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care Strauss a predat aceste concepte în sala de curs.


Despre autor

Robert Howse este profesor de drept internațional (catedra Lloyd C. Nelson) la New York University Law School și membru în consiliul consultativ al Centrului pentru Drept și Filosofie. Cu o carieră academică distinsă, a predat la universități de prestigiu precum Harvard, Sorbona și Universitatea Ebraică din Ierusalim. Expertiza sa vastă în drept internațional și filosofie politică este reflectată în lucrări precum The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals și traducerea comentată a operei lui Alexandre Kojève. Contribuția sa în volumul Leo Strauss integrează riguros jurisprudența cu teoria politică.


Descriere scurtă

Leo Strauss is known to many people as a thinker of the right, who inspired hawkish views on national security and perhaps advocated war without limits. Moving beyond gossip and innuendo about Strauss's followers and the Bush administration, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Strauss's writings on political violence, considering also what he taught in the classroom on this subject. In stark contrast to popular perception, Strauss emerges as a man of peace, favorably disposed to international law and skeptical of imperialism - a critic of radical ideologies who warns of the dangers to free thought and civil society when intellectuals ally themselves with movements that advocate violence. Robert Howse provides new readings of Strauss's confrontation with fascist/Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, his debate with Alexandre Kojève about philosophy and tyranny, and his works on Machiavelli and Thucydides and examines Strauss's lectures on Kant's Perpetual Peace and Grotius's Rights of War and Peace.

Cuprins

1. Introduction: reopening the case of Leo Strauss; 2. Warrior morality and the fate of civilization: Strauss's encounter with Carl Schmitt and German nihilism; 3. Legitimacy and legality, thinking and ruling in the closed society and the world state: the Strauss/Kojève debate; 4. Strauss's Machiavelli: fallen angel and theoretical man; 5. Thucydides versus Machiavelli: a moral-political horizon of war and law; 6. Justice and progress: Strauss's assessment of modern international law; 7. Conclusion.

Recenzii

'Even if you are convinced that nothing new or provocative could possibly be said about Leo Strauss, Rob Howse's book will force you to rethink your position. Both friends and foes of Strauss will find much of interest in this fascinating reinterpretation of one of the canonical figures of twentieth-century political theory. Focusing on Strauss' ideas about political violence, the volume's most important achievement is to lay bare the fundamentals of Strauss' oftentimes neglected international political and legal theory. Strauss poses an intellectual challenge to students of international law and politics, and Howse does a wonderful job sketching out that challenge's main features.' William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University
'Robert Howse's incisive reconstruction of Leo Strauss' views on the task of political philosophy and the case for liberal democracy makes a superb contribution to the burgeoning body of scholarship on a thinker who is increasingly recognized as a towering figure of twentieth century thought. Drawing on Strauss' intellectual encounters with Carl Schmitt and Alexandre Kojeve, Strauss' interpretations of an array of major figures in the history of political philosophy, and recently released transcripts of Strauss' legendary classes at the University of Chicago, Howse shows that the question of the status of international law was integral to Strauss' philosophical explorations. Howse's book should inspire lively and illuminating debate.' Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
'As the title makes clear, this book offers the reader a very different Leo Strauss: not one committed to permanent war for the sake of preserving humanity's noble ends against degradation, but rather a profound thinker committed to peace as the only condition in which philosophy, justice and individuality can flourish. Although willing to admit that war is sometimes necessary, Howse's Strauss articulates an extra-legal and moral-political standard that can be used to judge actions taken during war. Every chapter of this book is filled with a startling number of brilliant and original insights into Leo Strauss' relationship to his contemporaries, his understanding of key texts in the history of political thought, and the character of his overall project. Howse's book will not only spark new debates about, and a renewed interest in Leo Strauss' life and works, but I am convinced that it will also become the new standard by which any books on Strauss are measured.' Christina Tarnopolsky, McGill University
'… what is undeniable is that Howse has produced the clearest articulation of the fundamental role that 'the international' occupies in Strauss' thought. … Howse has done all of us a great service by writing this book.' Michael N. Di Gregorio, E-International Relations
'Robert Howse's Leo Strauss: Man of Peace is an effort to rehabilitate Strauss without supporting those whom he terms the 'Straussians' … [b]ut beyond Howse's meditations on Strauss, war and peace … thoughtful, inventive and well-argued … [this] book also makes an important contribution by inquiring into Strauss' views on philosophers and political life.' Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Los Angeles Review of Books
'In Leo Strauss: Man of Peace, the New York University law professor Robert Howse, with the blessing of the Straussian faithful … seeks to set the record straight … [w]hat we gain from Howse's reinterpretation of Strauss's views in light of casual remarks that Strauss made in his lectures and seminars is a slightly more capacious view of Strauss as a theorist of international relations.' Richard Wolin, The Chronicle of Higher Education
'In his own contribution to this discussion, Howse seeks to understand Strauss as Strauss understood himself (to borrow a venerable Straussian precept). He is thus preoccupied with Strauss' writings, lectures and letters. Like previous authors plowing these fields, however, Howse is also interested to some extent in the phenomenon of the Strauss 'cult' - that is, the fervent, often-cliquish group of Straussian teachers and students whose devotion to the Straussian 'project' has now stretched over several generations.' Gary Rosen, The National Interest