Reviews for The Political Ideas Of Leo Strauss

The average rating for The Political Ideas Of Leo Strauss based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-12 00:00:00 Mark Williams Compelling read. Whether or not Drury interprets Strauss correctly, I'm not sure, but it was still interesting.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-17 00:00:00 Cortez Proal 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.