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Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
Leo StraussThe first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than thirty years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did.
Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime
Kenneth L. DeutschResponding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal ...
The City and Man
Leo StraussThe essays are based on a long and intimate familiarity with the works, but the essay on Aristotle is especially important as one of Strauss's few writings on the philosopher who largely shaped Strauss's conception of antiquity.
Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of ...
PreviewTextual interpreters must thus take care not just to look for evidence which fits our expectations. This applies to Strauss''s critics too. Consider Masoud Bonyanian''s attempt to show that Strauss influenced American neoconservatives in the Bush administration: according to Bonyanian, these neoconservatives lied about why they waged war with Iraq because Strauss had argued that politicians may need to tell a noble lie to hide truths from the masses.102 A simple test of this claim is to ...
Socrates and Aristophanes
Leo Strauss"Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates.
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Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to ...
Neil StraussOne man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it Neil Strauss. Neil Strauss No.l BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GAME Y fybu're looking 7 \iS Rolling Stone V NEIL STRAUSS is the author of the No. 1 bestseller. Front Cover.
Richard Strauss: new perspectives on the composer and his work
Bryan Randolph Gilliam"from reviews of the cloth edition: ""Gilliam, perhaps now the leading North American expert on Strauss's operas . . . has assembled a group of authors who collectively present what is undoubtedly a major contribution to Strauss studies.
The Richard Strauss Companion
PreviewBryan Gilliam calls attention to the outstanding qualities of this opera in "Daphne Transformed," in Richard Strauss and His World, ed. Bryan Gilliam (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992), 33-66. 7. As to Strauss's concern about the ...
Kierkegaard on Faith and Love
Sharon KrishekBeatrice Longuenesse: Kant on the Human Standpoint Wayne Martin: Theories of judgment Heinrich Meier: Leo Strauss and the TheologicoPolitical Problem Otfried Héffe: Kant's Cosmopolitan Theory of the Law and Peace Beatrice ...
Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work
PreviewThis collection will interest Strauss scholars, musicologists, and those interested in the artistic and cultural life of Germany from 1880 through the Second World War. Contributors.
Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity
Brady BowmanBeatrice Longuenesse: Kant on the Human Standpoint Wayne Martin: Theories of judgment Heinrich Meier: Leo Strauss and the Theologico-PoliticalProblem Otfried Hoffe: Kant's Cosmopolitan Theory of the Law and Peace Beatrice ...
Richard Strauss and His World
More editionsThis volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life.
Richard Strauss and His World
PreviewThis volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life.
Richard Strauss
Matthew BoydenThis compelling volume provides a frank discussion of his open anti-Semitism at the Bayreuth Festival and delves into his active and willing collaboration with Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, fully exploring why and in which ways Strauss ...
Game
Neil StraussThis is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity.
How to Make Money Like a Porn Star
Neil StraussIn the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality.
Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books
Kathleen M. Hollenbeck(From Between Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni. Knopf, 1997, pp. 12-13 ) In fact, Leo Lionni's bedroom itself might have been the birthplace. In cages and containers across the room lived snails, caterpillars, fish, frogs, and mice that ...
Homos
Leo BersaniReviews of this book: "Perhaps no one since Leo Bersani in 'Is the Rectum a Grave?' has written so convincingly against the danger of homosexual assimilation as Leo Bersani in Homos.
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Neil StraussNO MORE GAMES. IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH 'Unfortunately, I am not the hero in this tale. I am the villain.' DO YOU BELIEVE IN MONOGAMY? Neil Strauss didn't.
Richard Strauss: Magier der Töne
Bryan GilliamRichard Strauss (1864–1949) ist bis heute einer der meistgespielten Opernkomponisten.
Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German ...
Charles Dowell YoumansA study of Strauss's orchestral activity from the perspective of late-19th-century German intellectual history.
Athens After the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals): ...
Barry StraussMore widely, Professor Strauss argues for the importance of the economic, social and ideological changes resulting from the Peloponnesian War in the development of political nexus.
Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-StraussThis is a rare opportunity to become acquainted with a great thinker in all his dimensions.
Good Night, Leo: A Swashbuckling Bedtime Adventure
Charise Mericle HarperIT’S TIME FOR BED, and Leo must get out of his pirate costume and into his pjs, and as he removes each item of clothing, Leo fondly says good night. (“Good night, green bandana .
The Life of Richard Strauss
Bryan GilliamRichard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states ...
Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...
Bryan GilliamCharles Youmans suggests that Strauss creates not a simple, unreflective appropriation of Wagner, but rather “a knowing superficial reminiscence that systematically deprives its source of all those features that would support a claim to ...
Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...
Bryan GilliamIn the first book to discuss all Strauss's operas, Bryan Gilliam sets each work in its historical, aesthetic, philosophical, and literary context to reveal what made the composer's legacy unique.
Performing Salome, Revealing Stories
Preview76 Morten Kristiansen, 'Strauss's road to operatic success: Guntram, Feuersnot, and Salome', in Charles Youmans (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss (Cambridge and New York, 2010), pp. 105–18, p. 116. 77 Carolyn ...
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