Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime.

Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers.

" Strauss and the Straussians ".

" Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-Democratic Cult?

In Drury's opinion, contemporary society is threatened by a small school of American academics labeled Straussians, after the German born, Jewish-American political scientist, Leo Strauss ( 1899 – 1973 ).

In his 2009 book, Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers, Peter Minowitz argues that Drury ’ s work is “ plagued by exaggerations, misquotations, contradictions, factual errors, and defective documentation .” Thomas Pangle, former professor of political philosophy at Yale, has described Drury's writings on Strauss as simplistic, incompetent, and unscholarly.

* " Strauss and the Straussians " conservative criticism of Strauss by Professor Paul Gottfried.

Perhaps the greatest tribute that Brahms paid to Strauss was his remark that he would have given anything to have written The Blue Danube waltz.

More recently, commentators such as Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield have agreed that the Prince can be read as having a deliberate comical irony.

Others, such as Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield, have argued strongly that there is a very strong and deliberate consistency and distinctness, even arguing that this extends to all of Machiavelli's works including his comedies and letters.

Commentators such as Leo Strauss have gone so far as to name Machiavelli as the deliberate originator of modernity itself.

Strauss argued that Machiavelli may have seen himself as influenced by some ideas from classical materialists such as Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius.

Strauss argued that Machiavelli may indeed have been influenced by pre-Socratic philosophers, but he felt it was a new combination :-

Strauss argued that the unavoidable nature of such arms races, which have existed before modern times and led to the collapse of peaceful civilizations, provides us with both an explanation of what is most truly dangerous in Machiavelli's innovations, but also the way in which the aims of his apparently immoral innovation can be understood.

Well-known philosophers such as Karl Jaspers, Leo Strauss, Ahmad Fardid, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Lévinas, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, William E. Connolly, and Jacques Derrida have all analyzed Heidegger's work.

To consider to what extent Eastern philosophy might have partaken of these important tensions, Strauss thought it best to consider whether dharma or tao may be equivalent to Nature ( by which we mean physis in Greek ).

The Strauss family in Vienna for example, while probably better-known for their waltzes also composed polkas which have survived obscurity.

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the social generation of Boomers as the cohorts born from 1943 to 1960, who were too young to have any personal memory of World War II, but old enough to remember the postwar American High.

Taylor had prepared introductions for The Firebird by Stravinsky, La Mer by Claude Debussy, Adventures in a Perambulator by John Alden Carpenter, Don Quixote by Richard Strauss, and Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky " to have them for the future in case we decided to make any one of them ".

Most of the Strauss works that are performed today may once have existed in a slightly different form, as Eduard Strauss destroyed much of the original Strauss orchestral archives in a furnace factory in Vienna's Mariahilf district in 1907.

Also, while the terms " symphonic poem " and " tone poem " have often been used interchangeably, some composers such as Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius have preferred the latter term for pieces that were less symphonic in design and in which there is no special emphasis on thematic or tonal contrast.

Both Liszt and Richard Strauss worked in Germany, but while Liszt may have invented the symphonic poem and Strauss brought it to its highest point, overall the form was less well received there than in other countries.

Other composers who have used the organ prominently in orchestral music include Gustav Holst, Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

At least two operas have been written about the Minnesang tradition: Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and Richard Strauss ' Guntram.

It was called the Marseillaise of the heart ( Eduard Hanslick, a critic from Vienna in the past century ) and was supposed to have saved Vienna the revolution ( sentence of a biographer of the composer Johann Strauss I ), while Strauss I himself was called the Napoleon Autrichien ( Heinrich Laube, poet from the north of Germany ).

In the 19th and 20th centuries countless composers after Mozart and Beethoven have taken up this challenge, including Lennox Berkeley, Carlos Chávez, Henry Cowell, Jean Cras, Paul Dessau, Ernst von Dohnányi, Hanns Eisler, Jean Françaix, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Paul Hindemith, Gideon Klein, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Darius Milhaud, Ernest John Moeran, Manuel Ponce, Max Reger, Terry Riley, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Miklós Rózsa, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, William Schuman, Jean Sibelius, Robert Simpson, Richard Strauss, Sergei Taneyev, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Anton Webern, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

Strauss taught that liberalism in its modern form contained within it an intrinsic tendency towards extreme relativism, which in turn led to two types of nihilism:

Since Leo Strauss, a philosophy professor, taught several of the putative founders of the neoconservatism movement, MacDonald concludes he is a central figure in the neoconservative movement and sees him as " the quintessential rabbinical guru with devoted disciples ".

Georg taught Strauss to play the clarinet, guitar and a range of brass instruments.

Strauss retired from the opera orchestra in 1889, though he continued his conducting and taught for some years thereafter.

* 1924 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician ( d. 1998 )

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Leo Strauss, an American political philosopher, declared himself more inclined toward the traditional view that Machiavelli was self-consciously a " teacher of evil ," ( even if he was not himself evil ) since he counsels the princes to avoid the values of justice, mercy, temperance, wisdom, and love of their people in preference to the use of cruelty, violence, fear, and deception.

** Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas ( b. 1924 )

* January 26 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas ( d. 1998 )

* February 26 – Levi Strauss, American clothing designer ( d. 1902 )

* American Whistle Manufacturers by Avner Strauss

In April 1945, Strauss was apprehended by American soldiers at his Garmisch estate.

The American oboist John de Lancie, who knew Strauss's orchestral writing for oboe thoroughly, was in the army unit, and asked Strauss to compose an oboe concerto.

When both towers collapsed during the September 11 attacks in 2001, ten employees died ; one on American Airlines Flight 11, and nine others ( Thomas F. Swift, Wesley Mercer, Jennifer de Jesus, Joseph DiPilato, Nolbert Salomon, Godwin Forde, Steve R. Strauss, Lindsay C. Herkness, Albert Joseph, Jorge Velazquez, Titus Davidson, and Charles Laurencin ) in the towers, including Security Director Rick Rescorla.

* Zia, Helen Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2000.

Erwin S. Strauss is an American author, science fiction fan and filk musician, born in Washington, D. C ..

* 2003 Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

* Strauss, William & Howe, Neil, The Fourth Turning, An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous With Destiny, 1998, Broadway Books, New York

* Magic & Images / Images & Magic, by David Levi Strauss — an opening paper for a conference at Princeton University, " Magic and the American Avant-Garde Cinema ", March 11, 2006.

He often created large-scale works there, from American themes and Broadway, such as Stars and Stripes for the premiere performance, to drawing from European traditions and music, such as his 1977 Vienna Waltzes, a lavishly designed one-hour ballet choreographed to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár, and Richard Strauss.

Shadia Drury, in Leo Strauss and the American Right ( 1999 ), claimed that Strauss inculcated an elitist strain in American political leaders linked to imperialist militarism, neoconservatism and Christian fundamentalism.

Finally, responding to charges that Strauss's teachings fostered the neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration, such as " unrealistic hopes for the spread of liberal democracy through military conquest ," Professor Nathan Tarcov, Director of the Leo Strauss Center at the University of Chicago, in an article published in The American Interest asserts that Strauss as a political philosopher was essentially non-political.