13. But thinking more on it, the Dannhauser mob debt story also says something about Straussian pedagogy.
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14. Teacher's relationship with his students, Strauss believed, was not merely a professional one but also a paternal one.
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15. For Strauss, students were "young puppies of [my] race." Dannhauser a wayward reprobate puppy who needed some protection.
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16. If friendship based on shared love of philosophic truth is highest human relationship. then of course you bail out Dannhauser.
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@willwilkinson's forthcoming novel should feature a subplot about torrid affair between Dannhauser & Commentary editor Marion Magid.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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18. Commentary in 1960s was a swinging office: Dannhauser/Magid, Norman Mailer inviting Podhoretz to join a threesome, etc.
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19. Did Saul Bellow & Allan Bloom also help Dannhauser with mob debts or did I imagine that?
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20. The story I heard is that the goons who wanted to beat up Dannhauser were impressed he knew Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow.
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21. I'll should say that version of Bellow story I gave is hearsay & probably didn't happen.
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22. This 1975 Dannhauser piece very illuminating on Straussian ideas of erotics of education: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/on-teaching-politics-today/ …
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23. "I lecture to hundreds, and my practiced eye roams freely and fiercely over bosom after bosom." Werner Dannhauser.
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24. "I scan the room, rejoicing at beauty, regretting homeliness—in both sexes—because teaching is a profoundly erotic activity."
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25. "Rules must be observed, and one must never sleep with undergraduates." (Whew! I was kind of worried where Dannhauser was going)
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