/lit/ - Literature

All right /lit/, you have convinced me. I want to read Strauss. Where best to begin?
Also, german is my mother tongue so I'm able to read what he wrote in german without translation.

>>20415056
Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss will suit, I guess.

Which works should I read first and what are his most important books. When I search for his books online I'm innduated by books and don't know where to start. I also know german so I could read his German works.

>>18182848

If you're interested in this sort of thing I'd advise you to become familiar with the works of Leo Strauss and Straussianism in general. There's a lot of good work happening in this field right now and Strauss is respectable enough not to set off the system's sensors. If you're totally unfamiliar with it watch this interview with Harvey Mansfield, a disciple of Strauss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-gH7Waedtk

If you are not tyrannical, you are a cuck?:
"Courage, as it is usually understood, is the virtue of the man, his capacity, without fear or effeminacy, to help himself, to protect himself from injustice or injury, to assert and save himself. According to this ideal, the perfect man is the tyrant, who disposes of the greatest possible power to do what he will. The tyrant as an ideal is the perfect expression, the most seductive and therefore the most revealing form of the popular ideal of courage, and thus challenges to searching criticism of that ideal. In limitless self-love, in frenzied arrogance, the tyrant seeks to rule not merely over men but even over gods."

Where do I start with Leo Strauss?
>inb4 the Greeks though this answer is technically correct, but I've already read Plato and Aristotle

>>13213549

Literally all of that was justified in order to promote American (read: just and democratic) interests

Plato's Republic is actually Satire. Change my mind.

>>11346178
Brainlet detected, never heard of esoteric writing, have you?

>>11091270
>Not reading the dialogues esoterically.
not gonna make it