For example, Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke (a libertarian based at Cato), in their 2004 book on neoconservatism, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order,[108] characterized the neoconservatives at that time as uniting around three common themes: In putting these themes into practice, neo-conservatives: Responding to a question about neoconservatives in 2004, William F. Buckley Jr. said: "I think those I know, which is most of them, are bright, informed and idealistic, but that they simply overrate the reach of U.S. power and influence". Freiburg: Alber, 2009, pp. Great books are held to be written by authors/philosophers "of such sovereign critical self-knowledge and intellectual power that they can in no way be reduced to the general thought of their time and place",[99] with other works "understood as epiphenomenal to the original insights of a thinker of the first rank". [99] Straussianism puts forward the possibility that past thinkers may have "hold of the truthand that more recent thinkers are therefore wrong". "[104], Strauss has also been criticized by some conservatives. [101], In February 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote he no longer took neoconservatism seriously because its basic tenet was defense of Israel:[102]. In his published correspondence with Alexandre Kojve, Strauss wrote that Hegel was correct when he postulated that an end of history implies an end to philosophy as understood by classical political philosophy. [119][120][121], The charge that neoconservativism is related to Leninism has also been made by Francis Fukuyama. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books. . But dominion can be established, that is, men can be unified only in a unity againstagainst other men. 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Several neoconservatives played a major role in the Stop Trump movement in 2016, in opposition to the Republican presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, due to his criticism of interventionist foreign policies, as well as their perception of him as an "authoritarian" figure. Singh, Robert. Trans. Edward Feser writes that "Strauss was not himself an orthodox believer, neither was he a convinced atheist. Irving Kristol wrote: "If there is any one thing that neoconservatives are unanimous about, it is their dislike of the counterculture". Tepper, Aryeh. [59], Within a few years of the Gulf War in Iraq, many neoconservatives were endorsing the ousting of Saddam Hussein. [129][130], John McGowan, professor of humanities at the University of North Carolina, states after an extensive review of neoconservative literature and theory that neoconservatives are attempting to build an American Empire, seen as successor to the British Empire, its goal being to perpetuate a "Pax Americana". Two things may at once be said about this approach, which resembles in important ways the old New Criticism in literary studies. [113], Paul Craig Roberts, United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during the Reagan administration and associated with paleoconservatism stated in 2003 that "there is nothing conservative about neoconservatives. [32], The neoconservatives rejected the countercultural New Left and what they considered anti-Americanism in the non-interventionism of the activism against the Vietnam War. Throughout the volume he argues for the Socratic reading of civil authority and rejects the conventionalist reading (of which atheism is an essential component). "Introduction: Mr. Strauss Goes to Washington?" [42] For Strauss, the American awareness of ineradicable evil in human nature and hence the need for morality, was a beneficial outgrowth of the pre-modern Western tradition. [116] This "Trotskyist" charge was repeated and widened by journalist Michael Lind during 2003 to assert a takeover of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration by former Trotskyists;[117] Lind's "amalgamation of the defense intellectuals with the traditions and theories of 'the largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement' [in Lind's words]" was criticized during 2003 by UniversityofMichigan professor AlanM. Wald,[118] who had discussed Trotskyism in his history of "the New York intellectuals". [87], During January 2009 at the end of President George W. Bush's second term in office, Jonathan Clarke, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and prominent critic of Neoconservatism, proposed the following as the "main characteristics of neoconservatism": "a tendency to see the world in binary good/evil terms", a "low tolerance for diplomacy", a "readiness to use military force", an "emphasis on US unilateral action", a "disdain for multilateral organizations" and a "focus on the Middle East". Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship. SUNY: 2013. Strauss's hermeneutical argument[3]rearticulated throughout his subsequent writings (most notably in The City and Man [1964])is that, before the 19th century, Western scholars commonly understood that philosophical writing is not at home in any polity, no matter how liberal. [53] In 1952 he published Persecution and the Art of Writing, arguing that serious writers write esoterically, that is, with multiple or layered meanings, often disguised within irony or paradox, obscure references, even deliberate self-contradiction. [5] They spoke out against the New Left and in that way helped define the movement. 'It may be too strong a term to say a fight is going on over John McCain's soul,' said Lawrence Eagleburger who is a member of the pragmatist camp, [but he] said, "there is no question that a lot of my far right friends have now decided that since you can't beat him, let's persuade him to slide over as best we can on these critical issues. ", "Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture", "Shooting of two soldiers in Little Rock puts focus on 'lone wolf' Islamic extremists", Transcript: Bush, Schroeder Roundtable With German Professionals, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. 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[35], Strauss was born on September 20, 1899, in the small town of Kirchhain in Hesse-Nassau, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia (part of the German Empire), to Hugo Strauss and Jennie Strauss, ne David. In a 2012 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, former Secretary of State Colin Powell revised his position on gay marriage. Up until that year, Powell had only publicly endorsed one Democratic Party candidate, Barack Obama, for President of the United States. Living the Theologico-Political Problem: Leo Strauss on the Common Ground of Philosophy and Theology., Macpherson, C. B. Leo Strauss (/stras/ STROWSS,[31] German: [leo tas];[32][33] September 20, 1899 October 18, 1973) was a German-American scholar of political philosophy who specialized in classical political philosophy. In. per Schall S.J., James V. Arnhart, Larry "Roger Masters: Natural Right and Biology", in. Commentary published an article by Jeane Kirkpatrick, an early and prototypical neoconservative. [1944] "How to Study Medieval Philosophy" [. [81] When he was 17, as he said, he was "converted" to political Zionism as a follower of Vladimir Jabotinsky. Strauss considered one of the most important moments in the history of philosophy Socrates' argument that philosophers could not study nature without considering their own human nature,[45] which, in the words of Aristotle, is that of "a political animal". Strauss subsequently enrolled in the University of Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1921; his thesis, On the Problem of Knowledge in the Philosophical Doctrine of F. H. Jacobi (Das Erkenntnisproblem in der philosophischen Lehre Fr. In 2004, for instance, Colin Powell announced in the JanuaryFebruary Foreign Affairs that "pundits claim that U.S. foreign policy is too focused on unilateral preemption. [4] The movement had its intellectual roots in the magazine Commentary, edited by Norman Podhoretz. Neoconservatism originated in the 1970s as a movement of anti-Soviet liberals and social democrats in the tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ('Scoop') Jackson, many of whom preferred to call themselves 'paleoliberals.' We have to play the role of the global policeman. [53], After the decision of George H. W. Bush to leave Saddam Hussein in power after the first Iraq War during 1991, many neoconservatives considered this policy and the decision not to endorse indigenous dissident groups such as the Kurds and Shiites in their 19911992 resistance to Hussein as a betrayal of democratic principles.[54][55][56][57][58]. see Deutsch, Kenneth L. and Walter Nicgorski. As the editors of a recent volume write, "the reception of Schmitt and Strauss in the Chinese-speaking world (and especially in the People's Republic of China) not only says much about how Schmitt and Strauss can be read today, but also provides important clues about the deeper contradictions of Western modernity and the dilemmas of non-liberal societies in our increasingly contentious world". Ambassador Upheld Reagan Doctrine", "Bill Kristol: A Neoconservative, Not a Conservative", "Scheunemann advising Palin for 'wide-ranging' Hong Kong talk", "The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You", "Paul Wolfowitz's Neocon Blueprint for US Strategic Action", "Up from Brownsville: A Podcast with Donald Kagan", "Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89", The 'Weekly Standard' and the Eclipse of the Center-Right, "Max Boot wants to retire 'neocon' label. But I also argue that we ought to go further". [104] Critics consider neoconservatism a bellicose and "heroic" ideology opposed to "mercantile" and "bourgeois" virtues and therefore "a variant of anti-economic thought". [11][12], During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the neoconservatives considered that liberalism had failed and "no longer knew what it was talking about", according to E. J. In his remarkable Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss argued that the interpretive techniques and sensibility he brought to America came from Judaism and Islam. Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope. For its opponents it is a distinct political ideology that emphasizes the blending of military power with Wilsonian idealism, yet for its supporters it is more of a 'persuasion' that individuals of many types drift into and out of. But George W. Bush's vision---enshrined in his 2002 National Security Strategy---is far broader and deeper than that. Every association of men is necessarily a separation from other men the political thus understood is not the constitutive principle of the state, of order, but a condition of the state. And once that distinction is made, much of the neoconservative ideology collapses. For West Coast Straussian conservatives, including American neo-conservatives, the United States is a creedal nation united not necessarily by a common history and common set of beliefs, practices . Schmitt's position was therefore symptomatic of the modern-era liberal self-understanding. This is different from the traditional conservative tendency to endorse friendly regimes in matters of trade and anti-communism even at the expense of undermining existing democratic systems. It is an important resource for anyone interested in the history and development of conservative thought in America. Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism. [88], In foreign policy, the neoconservatives' main concern is to prevent the development of a new rival. Strauss's closest friend was Jacob Klein but he also was intellectually engaged with Gerhard Krgerand also Karl Lwith, Julius Guttman, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Franz Rosenzweig (to whom Strauss dedicated his first book), as well as Gershom Scholem, Alexander Altmann, and the Arabist Paul Kraus, who married Strauss's sister Bettina (Strauss and his wife later adopted Paul and Bettina Kraus's child when both parents died in the Middle East). [47][48], A theory of neoconservative foreign policy during the final years of the Cold War was articulated by Jeane Kirkpatrick in "Dictatorships and Double Standards",[49] published in Commentary Magazine during November 1979. Kirkpatrick argued that by demanding rapid liberalization in traditionally autocratic countries, the Carter administration had delivered those countries to MarxistLeninists that were even more repressive. Conservatism in Russia is a broad system of political beliefs in Russia that is characterized by support for Orthodox values, Russian imperialism, statism, economic interventionism, advocacy for the historical Russian sphere of influence, and a rejection of Western culture.. Like other conservative movements, Russian conservatism is seen as defending the established institutions of its time . Least controversially, Straussianism is defined by its method within the academic discipline of political theory. [122], Critics of neoconservatism take issue with neoconservatives' support for interventionistic foreign policy. Dionne. Kirkpatrick concluded that while the United States should encourage liberalization and democracy in autocratic countries, it should not do so when the government risks violent overthrow and should expect gradual change rather than immediate transformation. [37] Strauss was a refugee from Nazi Germany who taught at the New School for Social Research in New York (19381948) and the University of Chicago (19491969). A catalog of books in politics and political science. [47][48], Strauss distinguished "scholars" from "great thinkers", identifying himself as a scholar. [23] Many early neoconservative political figures were disillusioned Democratic politicians and intellectuals, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and Jeane Kirkpatrick, who served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Reagan administration. "He was a conservative", she says, "insofar as he did not think change is necessarily change for the better." Many left-wing academics such as Frank Meyer and James Burnham eventually became associated with the conservative movement at this time. The danger is that we're going to do too little". He was openly disdainful of atheism[84][bettersourceneeded] and disapproved of contemporary dogmatic disbelief, which he considered intemperate and irrational. Former Nebraska Republican U.S. senator and Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, who has been critical of the Bush administration's adoption of neoconservative ideology, in his book America: Our Next Chapter wrote: So why did we invade Iraq? "Hobbes's Bourgeois Man". Harry Victor Jaffa (October 7, 1918 - January 10, 2015) was an American political philosopher, historian, columnist, and professor. [99], Almost the entirety of Strauss's writings has been translated into Chinese; and there even is a school of Straussians in China, the most prominent being Liu Xiaofeng (Renmin University) and Gan Yang. Critics from the left take issue with what they characterize as unilateralism and lack of concern with international consensus through organizations such as the United Nations. Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States. Not to be confused with, This article is about the political movement in the United States. [24], A substantial number of neoconservatives were originally moderate socialists who were originally associated with the moderate wing of the Socialist Party of America (SP) and its successor party, Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA). [96][97], Straussianism is the name given "to denote the research methods, common concepts, theoretical presuppositions, central questions, and pedagogic style (teaching style[98]) characteristic of the large number of conservatives who have been influenced by the thought and teaching of Leo Strauss". [9] His ideas have been influential since the 1950s, when he co-founded and edited the magazine Encounter. Since contemporary academia "leaned to the left", with its "unquestioned faith in progress and science combined with a queasiness regarding any kind of moral judgment", Strauss stood outside of the academic consensus. "[64], Strauss, however, directly opposed Schmitt's position. [6][7], The term neoconservative was popularized in the United States during 1973 by the socialist leader Michael Harrington, who used the term to define Daniel Bell, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Irving Kristol, whose ideologies differed from Harrington's. [43] O'Neill (2009) notes that Strauss wrote little about American topics, but his students wrote a great deal and that Strauss's influence caused his students to reject historicism and positivism as morally relativist positions. Linguafranca Volume 10, December 2000/January 2001. After a short stint as Research Fellow in the Department of History at Columbia University, Strauss secured a position at The New School, where, between 1938 and 1948, he worked in the political science faculty and also took on adjunct jobs. . "Heroes or Heroics? Powell reiterated that pundits "exaggerated the centrality of preemption in U.S. strategythe breadth of U.S. strategy transcends the war on terrorism." Straussianism is the term used to denote the research methods, common concepts, theoretical presuppositions, central questions, and pedagogic style characteristic of the large number of conservatives who have been influenced by the thought and teaching of Leo Strauss (18991973). ", Zuckert, Catherine, and Michael Zuckert. Their reactions to the 'color revolutions' in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan were hostile and suspicious, and understandably so. 2006, 268 pages. He adopted his wife's son, Thomas, and later his sister's child, Jenny Strauss Clay (later a professor of classics at the University of Virginia); he and Miriam had no biological children of their own. 157208. . In a book-length study for Harvard University Press, historian Justin Vaisse writes that Lipset and Goldberg are in error, as "neoconservative" was used by socialist Michael Harrington to describe three men noted above who were not in SDUSA, and neoconservatism is a definable political movement. The report says:[89]. Gourevitch, Victor. The "social welfare" associated with neoconservative ideas has been critiqued as a revival of social imperialism, particularly in the contexts of overseas assets, security interests, oil, oil technologies, and the doctrine of preemption. Esoteric writing serves several purposes: protecting the philosopher from the retribution of the regime, and protecting the regime from the corrosion of philosophy; it attracts the right kind of reader and repels the wrong kind; and ferreting out the interior message is in itself an exercise of philosophic reasoning. [65][66], Some major defense and national-security persons have been quite critical of what they believed was a neoconservative influence in getting the United States to go to war against Iraq.[67]. [36] Strauss himself noted that he came from a "conservative, even orthodox Jewish home", but one which knew little about Judaism except strict adherence to ceremonial laws. While Strauss maintained a sympathetic interest in Zionism, he later came to refer to Zionism as "problematic" and became disillusioned with some of its aims. [85] Although Trump was not reelected and the Republicans failed to retain a majority in the Senate, surprising success in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections and internal conflicts led to renewed questions about the strength of neoconservatism.[86]. and Other Studies, Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the Oeconomicus, Note on the Plan of Nietzsche's "Beyond Good & Evil", The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws. Defense Planning Guidance, a document prepared during 1992 by Under Secretary for Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz, is regarded by Distinguished Professor of the Humanities John McGowan at the University of North Carolina as the "quintessential statement of neoconservative thought". How Strauss Became Strauss". [91], Students who studied under Strauss, or attended his lecture courses at the University of Chicago, include George Anastaplo, Hadley Arkes, Seth Benardete, Laurence Berns, Allan Bloom, David Bolotin, Christopher Bruell, Charles Butterworth, Werner Dannhauser, Murray Dry, William Galston, Victor Gourevitch, Harry V. Jaffa,[92] Roger Masters,[93] Clifford Orwin, Thomas Pangle, Stanley Rosen, Abram Shulsky (Director of the Office of Special Plans),[94] Susan Sontag,[95] Warren Winiarski, and Paul Wolfowitz (who attended two lecture courses by Strauss on Plato and Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws at the University of Chicago). [106], Neoconservatives support a restoration of traditional gender roles and a strengthening of "traditional families" in order to adapt social structures to the free capitalism they demand. Irving Kristol states that neocons are more relaxed about budget deficits and tend to reject the Hayekian notion that the growth of government influence on society and public welfare is "the road to serfdom". 7591 in. Neoconservatives were also members of the so-called "blue team", which argued for a confrontational policy toward the People's Republic of China and strong military and diplomatic endorsement for the Republic of China (also known as Formosa or Taiwan). By 1982, Podhoretz was terming himself a neoconservative in The New York Times Magazine article titled "The Neoconservative Anguish over Reagan's Foreign Policy". [44][46], Strauss influenced The Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, William Bennett, Newt Gingrich, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, as well as Paul Wolfowitz. "Leo Strauss and the Demos," The European Legacy (October, 2012). After an exegesis of the very limited practical political views to be gleaned from Strauss's writings, Tarcov concludes that "Strauss can remind us of the permanent problems, but we have only ourselves to blame for our faulty solutions to the problems of today."[113]. Paul Gottfried, a self-described "paleo-conservative," finds the Straussian position to be a "defense [of] global democracy or a . Colen, Jose. Neoconservatives organized in the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation to counter the liberal establishment. First, the method is powerful, and the effort of intellectual discipline that it requires cultivates a particularly focused kind of discursive intelligence: Straussians, like the old New Critics, are often among the most penetrating readers of texts. Neoconservatives typically advocate the promotion of democracy and interventionism in international affairs, including peace through strength, and are known for espousing disdain for communism and political radicalism. ", "Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror,", "Will the Real Leo Strauss Please Stand Up? [109] In his review of Reading Leo Strauss, Robert Alter writes that Smith "persuasively sets the record straight on Strauss's political views and on what his writing is really about". In particular, Strauss argued that Plato's myth of the philosopher king should be read as a reductio ad absurdum, and that philosophers should understand politics not in order to influence policy but to ensure philosophy's autonomy from politics. They say that morality can be found only in tradition and that markets do pose questions that cannot be solved solely by economics, arguing: "So, as the economy only makes up part of our lives, it must not be allowed to take over and entirely dictate to our society". The United States will, if necessary, act preemptively".[68]. [21], Neoconservatism was initiated by the repudiation of the Cold War and the "New Politics" of the American New Left, which Norman Podhoretz said was too sympathetic to the counterculture and too alienated from the majority of the population; and "anti-anticommunism", which included substantial endorsement of MarxistLeninist politics during the late 1960s. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Neocons hide behind 'conservative' but they are in fact Jacobins. Kartheininger, Markus. Strauss, Kendall, and the Meaning of Conservatism HUMANITAS 7 ern, Strauss described conservatism as "no longer politically im- portant" since it is "identical with what originally was liberal-ism."3 Indeed, his long-time correspondent and fellow political philosopher Eric Voegelin once commented that Strauss "did not They will be the two great autocratic powers, China and Russia, which pose an old challenge not envisioned within the new 'war on terror' paradigm. Journalists such as Seymour Hersh have opined that Strauss endorsed noble lies, "myths used by political leaders seeking to maintain a cohesive society". "Neocon" redirects here. He characterized neoconservatives as former leftists whom he derided as "socialists for Nixon" who had become more conservative. 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