1. Trigger warning. I'm starting a twitter-essay on the sexual politics of Leo Strauss.
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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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5. Greek homosexuality, as Foucualt rightly taught us, had different social dynamic than modern one. Mentoring relationship was key.
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6. Friendship, in the Straussian model, is the key philosophic relationship, much moreso than any family relationship.
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7. Family life is based on biology/nature -- hence not philosophic. Friendship -- based on dialogue -- is philosophic.
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@KathaPollitt If there were willing to have female friends, the Straussians wouldn't be so bad.
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