The Crisis of liberal democracy : a Straussian perspective
Kenneth L. Deutsch (Editor, Writer of introduction), Walter Soffer (Editor, Writer of introduction), Joseph Cropsey
Print Book, English, ©1987
State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., ©1987
Congresses
ix, 304 pages ; 24 cm.
9780887063886, 9780887063879, 0887063888, 088706387X
13559618
Part 1: The work of Leo Strauss
an appraisal
An overview: Leo Strauss: three quarrels, three questions, one life / Michael Platt
On natural right: The problem of natural right and the fundamental alternatives in natural right and history / Victor Gourevitch
Evolutionary biology and natural right / Roger D. Masters
A critique: Political theory and politics: the case of Leo Strauss and liberal democracy / John G. Gunnell
Part 2: Issues in liberalism
Strauss on liberalism
Leo Strauss and the crisis of liberal democracy / Hilail Gildin
A reply to Gildin / Victor Gourevitch
A response to Gourevitch / Hilail Gildin
Straussian applications: Aristotle and Machiavelli on liberality / Richard H. Cox
Aristotle and the moderns on freedom and equality / Laurence Berns
The innocent, the ignorant, and the rational: the content of Lockian Consent / Judith A. Best
Nihilism and modern democracy in the thought of Nietzsche / Thomas L. Pangle
Why wasn't Weber A. Nihilist? / Robert Eden
Part 3: Liberalism and the American experience
Private interest and public choice: the crisis of liberal democracy: liberality and democratic citizenship / Stephen G. Salkever
Liberalism as the aggregation of individual preferences: problems of coherence and rationality in social choice / William T. Bluhm