Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education Annika Rabo

Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education Annika RaboThe first book length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education. Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education explores

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Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel (1925) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten

gives clues for understanding the complexities of the past

Stories such as Haggard’s serve as reminders that we are never as far as we think from the sins of the past

The profound reinvention of concepts characteristic of such work-fatalism

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Plato's Introduction to the Question of Justice uncovers the heart of the Platonic analysis of justice by focusing on the crucial opening sections of the Republic

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