Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the Abyss

ISBN-13: 9780415621625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 222 str.

Aggie Hirst

Opis

The volume enacts deconstructive challenge to Strauss' political philosophy which unsettles the fundamental assumptions it relies upon. In doing so, it exposes the securitising imperative underpinning Straussian thought and the Straussian interventions.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss  2. The Straussians  3. The Straussian Interventions and the Invasion of Iraq  4. Challenging the Straussian Interventions  5. Deconstructing the Straussian Project  6. Challenging Ontological Foreclosure in Derridean Thought  Conclusion

O autorze

Aggie Hirst is a Lecturer at City University London, UK.