Sean Noah Walsh: 2 books
Perversion and the Art of Persecution
Esotericism and Fear in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In this critical work on the political thought of Leo Strauss, Sean Noah Walsh addresses Leo Strauss’s claims about esotericism in the philosophic texts of Plato. He challenges Strauss’s understanding of esoteric writing as an attempt by Plato to secretly encode the highest truths “exclusively...
Counterrevolution and Repression in the Politics of Education
At the Midnight of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Counterrevolution and Repression in the Politics of Education revisits the ideas of Herbert Marcuse in order to examine how his observations on counterrevolution are applicable to present conditions in politics, particularly those pertaining to the politics of education. While Marcuse’s influence...