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SUMMARY:Leo Strauss\, and Public Intellectual Culture - Dr Benjamin Wurgaf
 t (UCLA/ MIT)
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CONTACT:Susan Gowans
DESCRIPTION:In 2003 Jenny Clay Strauss\, daughter of the German Jewish his
 torian of political philosophy Leo Strauss and herself a professor of clas
 sics\, wrote to the New York Times to protest articles that presented her 
 father “as the mastermind behind the neoconservative ideologues who cont
 rol United States foreign policy.” She went on: “He reaches out from h
 is 30-year-old grave\, we are told\, to direct a "cabal" (a word with dist
 inct anti-Semitic overtones) of Bush administration figures hoping to subj
 ect the American people to rule by a ruthless elite.” In “A Cabal We D
 eserve: Leo Strauss\, the Straussians\, and Public Intellectual Culture\,
 ” Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft explores the meanings of conspiracy theories su
 rrounding Leo Strauss and the Straussians. What values of transparency in 
 democratic governance\, what attitudes towards lying in politics\, animate
  them? What ideas about conservative as opposed to progressive intellectua
 ls?  And what expectations for public intellectual life in a democratic so
 ciety are bound up with all this talk of conspiracy?
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
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