Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Critique of the Liberal University: Postmodernism, Relativism and the Culture Wars

Autor/in	Peters, Michael A.
Titel	Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Critique of the Liberal University: Postmodernism, Relativism and the Culture Wars
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 49 (2008) 1, S.11-32 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
Schlagwörter	Cultural Pluralism; Postmodernism; Humanities; Politics of Education; Political Affiliation; United States History; Higher Education; Political Attitudes; Colleges; Cultural Influences; Social Influences; Political Issues; Philosophy; World Views + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kulturpluralismus; Postmoderne; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politisches Interesse; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sozialer Einfluss; Politischer Faktor; Philosophie; World view; Weltanschauung
Abstract	This paper examines the neoconservative critique of the university and particularly the attack on multiculturalism and postmodernism that initiated the culture wars. It seeks to explain these developments by an analysis of the thought of Leo Strauss. The paper begins by providing an introduction to US neoconservatism and latest challenges to it from within signaling its end before reviewing the roles of Allan Bloom and Lynne Cheney in the neoconservative rewriting of history and the humanities which finds its source in Strauss' critique of radical historicism. (Contains 35 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10