1. A few thoughts on Werner Dannhauser (1929-2014), the Straussian political scientist & onetime Commentary editor, who recently died.
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2. I only heard Dannhauser lecture once, on Nietzsche(his main specialization). He said he loved Nietzsche because he was never boring.
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3. The decision to study Nietzsche under Strauss must have been a daring one -- post-1933 Strauss kept his distance from German thought.
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4. The point about Nietzsche not being boring is key. Dannhauser hated being bored. Was restless. Also explains D's compulsive gambling.
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5. Unlike many 1st generation Straussians, Dannhauser didn't take to scholarship easily. He kept wanting to escape to "real life"
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6. Dannhauser periodically broke off from school by working variously as social worker, truck dispatcher, union staffer, Commentary editor
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7. Dannhauser's key historical role was as the bridge between academic Straussianism and the neo-cons.
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8. Without Dannhauser, it's by no means obvious that Straussianism would become chief political theorists of neo-con movement.
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9. Prior to Dannhauser, you saw scattered in various factions (mostly on the right): Goldwater, Charles Percy, even Diefenbaker in Canada.
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10. At Commentary in 1960s as magazine drifted to right, Dannhauser embodied emerging fusion between neo-cons & Strauss.
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11. Remember the time Leo Strauss rescued Dannhauser, who had some bad gambling debts with mobsters: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/04/28/werner-dannhauser-rip/ …
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12. 12. As I said earlier, story reflects well on Stauss. I'm not sure if I would ever save a grad student from mafia retribution.
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13. But thinking more on it, the Dannhauser mob debt story also says something about Straussian pedagogy.
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