Date: 2006-10-15 08:26 pm (UTC)
The article is incoherent, to say the least. The Calgary School isn't a "Straussian" school. The major centers of "Straussian-ism" in Canada are UoT and Carleton political science departments. Although, since Pangle left Toronto for Texas, the UoT outpost is much depleted, to say the least. (Although there is a junior Straussian up for tenure at Toronto, although I think she's in philosophy.)

Cooper, incidentally, got his PhD at York and wrote his dissertation - under the guidance of the eminent Hegel scholar, H.S Harris, on Kojeve, who, while a friend of Strauss', certainly did not agree with him (their correspondence, collected in the 2000 edition of Strauss' On Tyranny more than amply confirms this, but any attentive reader of both Strauss and Kojeve can see they hold absolutely incompatable positions!)

Cooper isn't even a Kojeve-an; he's a Voegelian. Most people have picked up on the Voegelin influence in neo-conservative thought, in part because Voegelin was as much a theologian as he was a philosopher. Good liberals don't read theology! (How mistaken they are.) And his membership in the "Calgary School" is much questioned: he spends his time in Vacouver at the Fraser Institute - for over a decade now, the FI has bought out Cooper's teaching commitments.

Few, other than journalists and herself, take Drury seriously. With good reason. (Her book on Kojeve is also a piece of shit.)
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