Murray N. Rothbard vs. the Philosophers - Ludwig von Mises Institute

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REVIEWS AND COMMENTS BY MURRAY N. ROTHBARD 91 liberal tradition and defends her subjects, she also praises extravagantly someone like Pownall, with his etatist, imperialist, and pro-bureaucratic biases, as someone somehow particularly in tune with the “realities” of modern life. And there are hints that she would not disfavor the egalitarianism of some nineteenth-century followers. Generally, however, she keeps a high average, and there are not many other bad apples than the ones I have just named. And she is devoted enough to her subjects not to be taken in by Edmund Burke. Another problem is that the book makes difficult reading; the style leaves much to be desired, and it assumes a considerable knowledge of eighteenth-century political history on the part of the reader, who would otherwise be lost in a sea of allusions. However, it remains an absolutely indispensable and highly valuable reference work for anyone interested in the history of libertarian thought or in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century. I would very strongly recommend it for National Book Foundation distribution. Cordially, Murray
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD VS. THE PHILOSPHERS: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS 92 ON HAYEK, MISES, STRAUSS, AND POLYANI 6. LETTER ON WHAT IS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY? BY LEO STRAUSS January 23, 1960 Mr. Kenneth S. Templeton William Volker Fund Dear Ken: The first thing to note about Leo Strauss’s What Is Political Philosophy? is its surprising insubstantiality. 41 This is a rag-tag, hodgepodge of a book, consisting of bits and pieces of reviews, journal debates, etc. There is little of note in the book one way or another, and the book could only be of possible interest to someone who believes that every word Leo Strauss writes is worthy of immortality—a view I hardly share. Most of the book, indeed, consists of either book reviews by Strauss or answers to reviews of his books. The book itself is, therefore, valueless and is only perhaps useful in gleaning Strauss’s own political philosophy, about which bits and pieces come through to the reader. Fundamentally, I have always known, from Strauss’s previous writings, that his work exhibits one great virtue and one great defect: the virtue is that he is in the forefront of the fight to restore and resurrect political philosophy from the interment given it by modern positivists and adherents of scientism—in short, that he wants to restore values and political ethics to the study of politics. This is surely a virtue indeed. The great defect is that Strauss, while favoring 41 Leo Strauss, What is Political Philosophy? (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1959).
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