/lit/ - Literature

He's just right-wing Adorno

>modern philosophy is bad, we need to return to ancient philosophy
okay, sounds based
>the ancients actually thought like moderns, but just kept it quiet
ummm... sounds fucking retarded, not to mention impossible

is there a greater bait and switch in ideology than Straussianism? keeping the cat in the bag sounds more impossible than communism

>>23020568
>sees through you like a laser
hmmm... concept of the political? looks like another recapitulation of liberalism as inaugurated by Hobbes... how quaint
>smirks quite Jewishly

>supposedly wants democracy for the goyim and only fascism for Israel
>teaches "gentlemen" to defend it at all costs
yet
>hates democracy so much that he undermines it by platforming every critique of liberalism, resuscitating logical discourse with fascism, promoting a study of the "illiberal ancients", unveiling secrets only known to the Jewish masters, etc.
>tag-teamed with Voegelin to dunk on globohomo works like Karl Popper's Open Society and Its Enemies
>American followers of Strauss continue to foray into no-no territory and push the Overton window
what the hell was Strauss's endgame? if he was such a subversive force against the right, then why did he spend so much time planting metapolitical seeds for the goyim to enjoy? was he dumb? careless? a traitor to Judaism? just wanted to watch the world burn?

>>22882766
There is... erhm... a cave within the cave.

Carl Schmitt on Leo Strauss:
>[Strauss] saw through me like an x-ray...
Schmittbros... our response?