1. Trigger warning. I'm starting a twitter-essay on the sexual politics of Leo Strauss.
2. Impossible to fully understand the Strauss without grasping that his pedagogy existed in the zone between the homosocial & the homoerotic
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3. The model for the student/teacher relationship in Strauss is of course in the ancients: Socrates and Alcibiades
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4. Exchange between teacher & student: teacher (older man) offers wisdom, student in return offers pleasure of company with beautiful youth
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@HeerJeet There is a strong link between eros and logosThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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