Reviews for Democracy, real and ideal

The average rating for Democracy, real and ideal based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-13 00:00:00 Stephen Dellapenna Compelling read. Whether or not Drury interprets Strauss correctly, I'm not sure, but it was still interesting.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-09-03 00:00:00 Suellen Buckman Shadia Drury's thesis is pretty much that Strauß was a closet Nietzschean (and, perhaps, also a closet homosexual--she only grazes that suggestion in the book, though; for a more detailed examination of Strauß' views on homosexuality, see Drury's review of The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism in the November 1991 issue of Political Theory, pp. 671-5). Well, I already knew this, but it is really nice to have a detailed account of Strauß' Nietzscheanism if only to rob the Straussians of their insufferably smug sanctimony.