Irks me that Heidegger is still classified as an Existentialist due to purposeful misreadings, like the Leftist Nietzschean nonsense.
Yeah it has its downsides to it, for instances his treatment of Nietzsche, you gotta remember bloom is the main disciple of Strauss
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So that comes with a lot of baggage when it comes to the treatment of 19th-20th cent German philosophers.
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But the book is spot on in terms of how he predicted what would and is happening to modern north amerikwan academia.
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Thanks! Since you mentioned Strauss, do you have a recommendation for a good book to start with him?
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Hmmm, natural rights and history, persecution and the art of writing are both good starts. Strauss is hard to grasp in some sense, he is
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Intentionally misleading in some regards, his persecution thesis of philosophy is why.
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