From: Chuck Grimes
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But he doesn't write directly on Nietzsche or Heidegger. Nietzsche is there as the background---well the looming giant pink elephant. It is almost as if Strauss had tried to become the Jewish Nietzsche some how---identifying with him completely. In this regard, Strauss takes the basic posture of becoming an enemy of the present, more or less in the spirit of Nietzsche. The brave new mind goes backward....
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CB: Gee, somebody else really fucked up who is influenced by Nietzsche...