[lbo-talk] Intellectuals: The Leo-conservatives -

[dave dorkin]

Perhaps you mean something else by movement or are
switching between political and intellectual/academic
senses. If you are talking about some key politicians
who are in a major party, fine but certainly there is
no point in even considering logical positivism either
in that case.

Besides Wolfie and that handful, there are just a few
academics and other assorted hacks who are influenced
by Strauss and you could easily go through university
without hearing of them ever. On the other hand, tons
of people (both academics and students) read Marcuse
et al still today. Certainly a major part and reason
why we have all these critical theory departments etc.
which have impacted several disciplines and are
present in just about every university. Their books
are in university bookstores and on reading lists all
over. 

--- andie nachgeborenen  
> Frankfurters, though influential, did not establish
> a  movement, much less one that became widespread;
(c) same with Arendt.  But (d) the logical
positivists, some of whom, like my teacher Carl
Hempel, were  German, were emigrants and did establish
a movement that becvame widespread in the US -- as I remarked.

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com