http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1542.jsp Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq by Danny Postel
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss came up elsewhere. I scribbled these words. chmitt exerted a lot of influence on the German and Italian New Left of the 60's and 70's, btw, as one of the books below details in a chapter. His anti-liberalism and reflections on guerilla warfare. "Philosophic Roots, the Role of Leo Strauss, and the War in Iraq, " by Kenneth Weinstein, pgs. 201-212, " in The Neocon Reader, edited by Irwin Stelzer. (Points out a lot of the journalistic commentary on Strauss and the neo-cons is cribbed from Lyndon LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3011profile_strauss.html , "Profile: Leo Strauss, Fascist Godfather of the Neo-Cons.") Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism by Steven B. Smith (Hardcover - May 15, 2006) Good reviews, even Portside of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, reprinted one. They must be part of the Fascist Cult too? (Or, Mark is that Social Fascist, heh?) The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy by Catherine H. Zuckert and Michael Zuckert (Hardcover - Sep 15, 2006) Available at Tattered Cover books and all fine bookstores. From flipping through, spends much time refuting the common left-liberal vulgarizations/misinterpretations of Strauss and the Straussians. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton (Hardcover - Sep 10, 2004) On Tyranny by Leo Strauss, Victor Gourevitch, and Michael S. Roth (Paperback - May 15, 2000) Hmm, a Fascist vs. Tyranny?! See also the book of letters between Strauss and Hegelian Marxist, Kojeve. Leo Strauss and the American Right by Shadia B. Drury (Paperback - Feb 15, 1999) Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty by Carl Schmitt, Tracy B. Strong, and George Schwab (Paperback - Jan 15, 2006). (Strong, btw, is the son of Anna Louise Strong, major figure in the CPUSA, mid-century. Supported Maoism after '49, thrown out of Russia by the CPSU as a supposed Spy. Shunned by everyone in the CPUSA afterwards except Dorothy Healey.) The Challenge of Carl Schmitt by Chantal Mouffe (Paperback - Sep 1999) Not what is the pomo, post-marxist Mouffe, co-author of, "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, " up to here?! The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt by Gopal Balakrishnan. (An allusion to his distinction between political friend and enemy...which sounds like Leninists, "drawing laws of demarcation, " eh?. A member of the New Left Review editorial board on Schmitt.) State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben and Kevin Attell (Paperback - Jan 15, 2005). Hmm, Giorgio Agamben is one of the fave philosophers on the libertarian communist, aut-op-sy list. Oh, oh! Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Modern European Philosophy) by John P. McCormick (Paperback - Jun 13, 1999) Good blurbs, IIRC. A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought by Jan-Werner Muller (Hardcover - Dec 1, 2003) The book that has a chapter on Schmitt's influence on the European New Left. The Autonomy of the Political: Carl Schmitt's and Lenin's Political Realism (Contributions in Political Science) by Eckard Bolsinger (Hardcover - Mar 31, 2001) Carl Schmitt, Theorist for the Reich by Joseph W. Bendersky (Hardcover - Feb 1983) Bendersky, was a contributor to Telos. Kevin Coogan recommends his book on the US Army and Anti-Semitism