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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.

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.

Now in paperback, this book explores the political thought of Leo Strauss, a philosopher most noted for playing a key role in neoconservative thought in America. Drury explores Strauss's thought and its role in American politics, exposing what she argues are the elitist, nearly authoritarian strains within it and those who follow it.