the idea that a text has some secret reading that you can only get by studying with a certain teacher or buying certain books smacks of a racket
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land of opportunity
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Hannah Arendt famously said of Strauss that “he wanted to join a party which wouldn’t have him because he was a Jew.” But couldn't this stricture apply to Derridians as much as Straussians?
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glad to know she watched the Marx brothers
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Strauss worked on Lessing and the Pantheismussstreit before his arrival in the US. The idea of esoteric readings is explicit in Lessing’s “Ernst unf Falk”.
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This is one of those remarks that depends upon an animus being sufficiently fashionable to prevent its utter vacuity from being discovered. But I’m not so sure it’s that fashionable anymore.
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