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Robert Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at New York University Law School, where he serves on the advisory board of the Center for Law and Philosophy. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has previously held positions at the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto. His publications include, with Bryan-Paul Frost, the translation of the interpretative essay for Alexandre Kojève's Outline of a Phenomenology of Right and The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and the EU, co-edited with Kalypso Nicolaidis, as well as several articles on twentieth-century political thinkers, including Strauss, Kojève and Schmitt.
As the title makes clear, this book offers the reader a very different Leo Strauss: not one committed to permanent war for the sake of preserving humanity s noble ends against degradation, but rather a profound thinker committed to peace as the only condition in which philosophy, justice and individuality can flourish. Although willing to admit that war is sometimes necessary, Howse s Strauss articulates an extra-legal and moral-political standard that can be used to judge actions taken during war. Every chapter of this book is filled with a startling number of brilliant and original insights into Leo Strauss relationship to his contemporaries, his understanding of key texts in the history of political thought, and the character of his overall project. Howse s book will not only spark new debates about, and a renewed interest in Leo Strauss life and works, but I am convinced that it will also become the new standard by which any books on Strauss are measured. Christina Tarnopolsky, McGill University
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