Subject: RE: Nietzsche/Nazism/Heidegger Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:14:15 +0100 From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl> "I never discussed these matters with Strauss or Klein at any great length. Strauss avoided them. He was very amicable and I took great pleasure in listening to him, but whenever philosophical issues came up, he shied away from them" (Gadamer) http://www.gongfa.com/jiadamoeryishitelaosi.htm May i, once more, draw attention to Gadamer on Strauss. There are comments on Strauss by Gadamer, on Strauss' reading of Spinoza, in: Truth and method. (near the end) And there must be a correspondence Gadamer-Strauss, but not here. Strauss holds that Spinoza told a sort of double truth (eso-exo) in his Tractatus theologico-politicus. I did not look for, but i found a title: "Is there an esoteric doctrine in the Ttp? by Errol E. Harris. (Mededelingen 38 vanwege het Spinozahuis). It is in fact a critique of Strauss' reading of the Ttp. This reading implies that Spinoza was intentionally 'dishonest', when writing for the many. My conclusion, superficially: Stauss does away with the history of Western philosophy, which is, to the Jews and their Geschick, just a dark period. The only philosopher left is Spinoza (and Maimonides), but not as he is fits into this history, but as one who would point away from its insufficiency vis-avis brutality. Merrill and many others protest. The Dutchman den Tex speaks of a "double bottom". Leibniz the founder of the principle of ground. Spinoza, that is Strauss' Spinoza: a double ground.... Strauss' enmity to history (it's relativity) would correspond to the historylessness of americanism. The blaming of Nietzsche/Heidegger, as an excuse for a political nihilism, founded upon, justified by a superior, unshaking truth. Quite intelligent, with a grasp for important loci, but everything turned upside down, as Nietzsche almost all-too-lucidly, shows on beforehand in Beyond a.o. But Nietzsche warns for antisemitism: every anti- (widerwille) will lose. Also here we are in the Bann des Anfangs, a very different, but undeniable one though. There's an unevitability to Heidegger's demand to ask for the godly (that which comes BEFORE gods - H to Buber) in the Greeks, in the prophetical-Jewish, and in the preaching of Jesus. rdb i was thinking...would there be a US magazine interested in a big article - i'm thinking of the Christmas edition - that treats all these things and many more, under the title (or another): The Straussians and Heidegger's word of a German-Jewish co-destiny. (The old empire strikes back.)? As to me, i think it's all very thrilling. --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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