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

>> No.15380015
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15380015

Start with Schmitt.

>> No.15380046

>>15379845
Just read Shadia Drury

>> No.15380333

>>15379845
Start with Strauss' German Nihilism. Dont listen to these 14 yr old larpers. https://archive.org/details/LeoStraussGermanNihilismIntegral1941/mode/2up

>> No.15380343

>>15380046
fuck off reddit roastie

>> No.15380353

His lectures on Hegel and Nietzsche, which are on youtube, are really good

>> No.15380417

>>15380353
http://leostrausstranscripts.uchicago.edu/

>> No.15380448

>>15380343
Strauss won't help you, in fact it'll make you a worse person probably. Same thing with Hegel or any other pseudo-intellectual crypto-totalitarian

>> No.15380453

>>15379845
There’s a really good Josias episode about Strauss.

>> No.15381205

>>15380448
Strauss wasn't an imperialist neocon ad it's a common mistake to make that assumption.