[lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy

[Jim Farmelant]

A comparitive analysis of the views of Hannah Arendt, Herbert
Marcuse, and Leo Strauss might be of interest, since all
of these former students of Heidegger seemed to have
incorporated vast chunks of the old man's vision into
their own work.  I am reminded that when I first read
Allan Bloom's *The Closing of the American Mind*,
that he seemed rather unusually respectful when
he was discussing the Frankfurt School, perhaps
because he recognized that the Frankfurters and
the Straussians shared a common origin with
Heidegger.

Jim F.

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 03:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
writes:
> 
> If I recollect Young-Bruehl's biography of Arendt correctly, Strauss
> tried to woo Arendt in the 20s and she rejected him. Chris Doss
> 
> ------------
> 
> Yeah, you're right. I completely forgot that. I just looked it
> up. They knew each other through the Prussian state library where he
> was working(?) for Gadamer(?). 
> 
> `` When she criticized his conservative political views and dismissed
> his suit, he became bitterly angry. The bitterness lasted for 
> decades,
> growing worse when the two joined the same American faculty at the
> University of Chicago in the 1960s. Strauss was haunted by the rather
> cruel way in which Hannah Arendt had judged his assessment of 
> National
> Socialism: she pointed out the irony of the fact that a political
> party advocating views Strauss appreciated could have no place for a
> Jew like him...'' (98p, Young-Bruehl)
> 
> So it might be worth looking into the detail of what Strauss had to
> say early in the German nationalism debates of the 20s, where people
> like Mann began to see the consequences of what he had orginally
> written, show up as literary trappings for the early nazi
> movements. Heidegger of course fits right in. And it was reflecting 
> on
> this cultural phenomenon that later leads Cassirer to write the Myth
> of State.
> 
> Anyway any link, no matter how obscure between the German nazis and
> the American Neoconservatives is fine by me. I always thought they
> were nazis anyway.
> 
> Chuck Grimes 
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