1. This @jbouie piece on the whitewashing of the Enlightenment is, as expected, excellent:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/taking-the-enlightenment-seriously-requires-talking-about-race.html …
The Hobbes book is very early. Strauss' main intellectual project is to move beyond the Enlightenment towards a return to classical philsophy
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I guess his works on Spinoza and Rousseau don’t matter; Strauss argues that Rousseau recovered classical philosophy. Don’t conflate the ills of the enlightenment with thinkers who wrote during the same period.
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