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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Abbreviations -- Index.

"My relationship with the Bronfmans has been compared to that of Tom Hagen's consiglière to the Corleone family in The Godfather - I was a surrogate son and adviser to the father and a friend and counsellor to the sons. I was brought into the family as an outsider and became privy to its secrets." Thus begins Leo Kolber's account of his remarkable relationship with the Bronfman family dynasty and the world of high-flying business.

When the Art and Liberty group launched its activities in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the young Levon Boyadjian (later to become the famous Van-Leo) and his elder brother, Angelo, were jointly debuting their careers as photographers in Cairo. Van-Leo's archive of photographic prints, negatives, and documents reveals much about the imaginative experimental channels he explored to crystallize his inner self. The artist's self-portraiture—"auto-portraits," as he called them—constituted the core of his surrealist production, and his photographic knowledge was enriched while he implemented these early self-portraits. Self-taught, he often returned to photography books, from which he learned techniques of double and triple exposure, juxtaposition, sandwiching, solarization, and cutouts and thus triggered his imagination and sense of exploration. This article traces the arc of Van-Leo's early surrealist phase, which lasted about a decade that coincided with the beginning of his career in the 1940s. Other than the surrealist self-portraits, his photographic archive also contains a few hundred more works that are just as eccentric, although they rely more on disguise skills, shadows, and contrasts, or constitute false personifications of characters in society, rather than a surrealist approach. Although Van-Leo's work was detached from what the Egyptian surrealist philosophies called for, he was, it seems, a surrealist by accident.

Intro -- Contents -- Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project -- Editorial Headnote -- Introduction to the Transcript of Leo Strauss's 1965 Course on Hegel's Philosophy of History -- 1. Preliminary Considerations -- 2. Reason in History and the Nature of Spirit -- 3. The Actualization of Spirit in World History -- 4. Historical Understanding and the Folk- Mind -- 5. Africa and China -- 6. China Continued and India -- 7. India Continued and Persia -- 8. Phoenicia, Judea, and Egypt -- 9. The Greek World -- 10. The Greek World Continued -- 11. The Greek World Continued and the Roman World -- 12. The Roman World Continued and the Advent of Christianity -- 13. Interlude: The Concept of the Philosophy of History -- 14. The Middle Ages -- 15. The Middle Ages Continued -- 16. The Reformation, Enlightenment, and French Revolution -- Notes -- Index.

A tribute to opinion poll researcher & sociologically oriented literature critic, Leo Lowenthal, 1900-1993. After joining the Frankfurt school as a junior member, he moved to the US at the start of the Nazi regime & taught the sociology of knowledge at Columbia U in NY. During WWII, he analyzed Fascist propaganda for the US government, then became research director of the Voice of America until 1955, studying international communications. Modified AA

"For thirty years, E. Leo Kolber was head of Cemp Investments, the Bronfman family trust, and Cadillac Fairview Corporation, one of the premier real estate firms in North America. A protege of the legendary Sam Bronfman and a close friend of Mr Sam's sons, Charles and Edgar, Kolber was the family's consigliere for decades of deals, including the buying of MGM in the 1960s. That deal foretold the disaster that overtook the third generation of Bronfmans after 1995, when Edgar Bronfman Jr sold Seagram's 25 percent interest in DuPont to buy MCA." "Named to the Senate of Canada by Pierre Trudeau, Kolber has served there for twenty years, including four years as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Throughout this period, he was a senior bagman for the Liberal Party of Canada. Kolber also served for more than twenty-five years as a director of Seagram and the Toronto-Dominion Bank, whose famous headquarters, the TD Centre, was built by Fairview Corporation in the 1960s. Formerly chairman of Cineplex Odeon Theatres, he was also a longtime director of DuPont and MGM, among other companies in which the Bronfmans once held an important interest." "Now Leo Kolber tells the story of a man of influence at the centres of power in business and politics, a life he calls "a tremendous ride"--With business tycoons, from Sam and Charles Bronfman to Kirk Kerkorian, with famous politicians, from Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney to Jean Chretien and Shimon Peres, with Hollywood moguls and nights out with the stars, from Danny Kaye to Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant."--Jacket