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16 [lbo-talk] Fucking white assholes, kiss my ass -- rank: 731

James Heartfield wrote: <snip> After a couple of lame sentences, Chuck abandons any attempt to talk about Strauss' ideas, saying: "feel free to correct the detail on the ... Here's the problem James: you apparently think this is Grimes' first and only post on Strauss and interpret Chuck's words to be the extent of his thinking on ... sure his most recent post is light on details because Chuck reasonably assumed most of his readers followed his investigation' ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Dec 17 08:51:01 PST 2008

17 [lbo-talk] Posner, Schmitt, Strauss? -- rank: 708

Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> writes: > [From Poll of Top 5 ... Judge Posner. Carl Schmitt > (in fact an actual Nazi.) Leo Strauss. Nietzsche..'' jks > > ---------- > > Really Justin, I am still waiting to hear ...

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Author:	Alexander Nekvasil
Date:	Sat Oct 15 15:10:21 PDT 2005

18 [lbo-talk] Know your enemy -- rank: 694

... the nature of the fight, the nature of the enemy. Chuck Grimes ---------------------- The Strategist And The Philosopher, By Alain Frachon et Daniel ... were the thinkers who inspired them, Albert Wohlstetter and Leo Strauss? It was said in a tone of sincere praise: "You ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Apr 17 16:03:45 PDT 2003

19 [lbo-talk] Re: Hey list philosophers... -- rank: 680

Chuck, It might be useful to also think about Friedrich Nietzsche ... theories at the time (or prior to the time) Leo Strauss would have been developing his own theories of religion. Diane ... because of the absence of absolutes. But the way that Strauss goes about this is through discovering the loss of an ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Feb 2 12:04:17 PST 2004

20 [lbo-talk] Fucking white assholes, kiss my ass -- rank: 671

Dwayne writes: "But to just shit on it as if Grimes is a random asshole...to completely miss the point and ... can be sensibly described or understood this way) robs both Chuck and the list of the discussion we should be having ... supposedly done more for social justice"? Dwayne, you should read Chuck's post again. What was the case against Leo Strauss made? First Chuck without any justification whatsoever asserts that "The whole package is ... ideas". Bullshit. There is nothing about white male identity in Strauss. After a couple of lame sentences, Chuch abandons any ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Dec 17 06:21:13 PST 2008

21 [lbo-talk] Hey list philosophers... -- rank: 666

... Spinoza, Jacobi, Kant, Fichte, Cohen, Guttmann in relation to Leo Strauss. It also tries to quickly sketch out 20s German Zionists ... is tough to attempt an intellectual bio of evil Leo Strauss) Thanks, Chuck Grimes --------------------------- With English or Russian Zionists in control of events in ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Feb 1 17:14:10 PST 2004

22 [lbo-talk] Das problem des idealismus, Strauss, Neocons, and Iraq -- rank: 629

Chuck Grimes wrote: > > > This intellectual mistake was taken up by the US ... have adopted, in a broad and sloppy way, many of Strauss's (and > others) interpretative readings, and have proceeded to re ... US > political discourse and policies under this generalized idealistic > influence. Chuck, doesn't this thesis itself constitute seeing the neocons through ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Sep 29 08:23:27 PDT 2005

23 [lbo-talk] Re: Strauss, Bloom, and Rashomon -- rank: 615

... order. In this context it is useful to remember that Strauss was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis. One can understand ... learned---how do you square their views with those of Strauss? All three had roughly equivalent experiences and backgrounds as German ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Oct 13 11:42:17 PDT 2003

24 [lbo-talk] Re: Strauss, Bloom, and Rashomon -- rank: 615

... anyone on this thread read the letters of Kojeve and Strauss, to each other? Michael Pugliese -------- No. I have Kojeve's ... taping my handlebars. In addition to the library copies of Strauss (Natural Rights and History, Political Philosophy, etc), sitting on the ... to go back to this damned Bloom thing. And now Strauss and Kojeve. Just fuc

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Oct 13 23:33:07 PDT 2003

25 [lbo-talk] Srauss, Bloom, and Rashomon -- rank: 611

... order. In this context it is useful to remember that Strauss was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis. One can understand ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Oct 12 12:51:59 PDT 2003

26 [lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy -- rank: 611

Ow...I have to disagree on two points here. First, I can't think of a single polite mention of either the Frankfurt School or its individual members that are even polite, let alone respectful, in Bloom's awful books. He says that Marcuse's work was "trashy cultural criticism," calls ...

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Author:	H. Curtiss Leung
Date:	Fri Apr 18 07:18:12 PDT 2003

27 [lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy -- rank: 611

... of the views of Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, and Leo Strauss might be of interest, since all of these former students ... On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 03:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> writes: > > If I recollect Young-Bruehl's biography of Arendt correctly, Strauss > tried to woo Arendt in the 20s and she rejected ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Apr 18 04:21:53 PDT 2003

28 [lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy -- rank: 611

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:18:12 -0400 (EDT) "H. Curtiss Leung" <hncl at panix.com> writes: > Ow...I have to disagree on two points here. First, I can't > think of a single polite mention of either the Frankfurt > School or its individual members that are even polite, let ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Apr 18 18:56:14 PDT 2003

29 [lbo-talk] Re: "One Palestine, Complete" -- rank: 606

... what we really need is a good intellectual biography of Strauss -- alas, his disciples are adverse to that sort of analysis ... student that knew German, I would get them working on Strauss's bio. Jeet -------- Agreed. I am sort of working along ... a reason nobody has done a serious intellectual biography of Strauss. It starts with understanding that Strauss was a serious philosophy student and worked under giants like ... way I am trying to approach it is to read Strauss, then read who Strauss was writing abo

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Jan 4 15:26:37 PST 2004

30 [lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy -- rank: 592

Here is an excerpt from a bio of Leo Strauss, by David McBryde (follow one of Jim Farmelant's urls): ``..In 1921, Strauss went to the University of Hamburg, and completed his PhD ... place on 17 December 1921. Of the years that follow, Strauss later says, I can only say that Nietzsche so dominated ... that I understood of him...'' (http://members.tripod.com/Cato1/strauss-bio.htm) What can I say? Fucking fascinating! Cassirer was ... religious scholasticism. It must have appeared to more than just Strauss that Cassirer and others attempting to understand and construct a ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Apr 18 02:46:22 PDT 2003