Liberalism and the Question of “The Proud”: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss as Readers of Hobbes
Abstract
It has often remained unclear when and where Arendt and Strauss’s comprehensive accounts of modern thought entailed a critique of liberalism in the more specific sense. This paper argues that even if neither of them wrote a systematic assessment of liberalism, they focused on the change that it had brought about in the understanding of politics. Here both turned to Thomas Hobbes as the paradigmatic liberal. Arendt and Strauss’s readings display...
Paper Details
Title
Liberalism and the Question of “The Proud”: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss as Readers of Hobbes
Published Date
Jan 1, 2012
Volume
73
Issue
2
Pages
319 - 341
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