Was Strauss right about Nietzsche/Nazis and Rousseau/Robespierre?
The influential political philosopher Leo Strauss made this strong claim: “The relation of Nietzsche to the German Nazi is comparable to the relation of Rousseau to the French Revolution.” (1941 lecture, “German Nihilism,” later published in the journal *Interpretation*, p. 372) Is he correct? My book-length analysis of the connections (and disconnections) between Nietzsche and […]
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