Background
Gottfried, Paul Edward was born on November 21, 1941 in New York City. Son of Andrew Gottfried and Ruth Weiser.
(This book offers an original interpretation of the achiev...)
This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. According to this study, Strauss and his disciples came to influence the establishment Right almost by accident. The conservative movement that reached out to Strauss and his legacy was extremely fluid and lacked a self-confident leadership. Conservative activists and journalists felt a desperate need for academic acceptability, which they thought Strauss and his disciples would furnish. They also became deeply concerned with the problem of "value relativism," which self-described conservatives thought Strauss had effectively addressed. But until recently, neither Strauss nor his disciples have considered themselves to be "conservatives." Strauss's followers continue to view themselves as stalwart Truman-Kennedy Democrats and liberal internationalists. Contrary to another misconception, Straussians have never wished to convert Americans to ancient political ideals and practices, except in a very selective rhetorical fashion. Strauss and his disciples have been avid champions of American modernity, and "timeless" values as interpreted by Strauss and his followers often look starkly contemporary.
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( In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul...)
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the welfare state. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.
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editor-in-chief humanities educator
Gottfried, Paul Edward was born on November 21, 1941 in New York City. Son of Andrew Gottfried and Ruth Weiser.
Bachelor, Yeshiva University, 1963. Master of Science, Yale University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1967.
Graduate fellow Yale University, New Haven, 1965-1966. Assistant professor history Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1968-1971. Visiting assistant professor history New York University, New York City, 1971-1972.
Chairman history department Rockford (Illinois) College, 1974-1986. Senior editor The World and I, Washington, 1986-1993. Professor humanities Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania) College, since 1989.
Editor-in-chief This World, since 1992.
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Member Neoclassical Reform Jewish Movement (organizer), Società Libera (associate).
Married Diane Zelcer, June 15, 1969 (deceased February 1994). Children: Barbara Hollander, Joseph, Jonathan, Beth, Sara. Married Mary Zwir, May 12, 2000.