Does anyone know of a single volume edition of Spengler's _The Decline of the West_ currently available? In viewing amazon I have found on two volume editions...
... The original one-volume (which I have never seen so I don't know if it was abridged) was first published Nov. 15, 1932, according to my old two-volume, ...
I'm wondering if I might do something to expedite the posting of my messages to the Strauss list. I joined the group toward the middle of February and have...
to answer your questions based on other yahoo reflector's i run: yes, it shouldn't, no, perhaps, are yor receiving the other posts near the time of their...
Thanks for the info. The problem seems to be in my attempt to reply. I assume now that my original posts took some time since I was a new member. Since then...
sorry, i was away from my computer when this came in, so i do not know how long it took. it's 17:10 eastern now. it should not usually matter what computer...
... Generally speaking, the posts ought to go more or less within a few minutes. Ever since my ISP started scanning all messages for viruses it has taken a ...
Harveycmd writes: [snip] ... I don't know where you are, but I have seen these two-volumes on rare occasions at used book stores, normally around a college or...
Thanks for your response. I tried to reply right away but it didn't go through for some reason. I had just joined the list and was having difficulty getting...
... Wittgenstein by ... 139); ... ignorance ... of our ... the ... and ... the ... More and more I've begun to wonder why exactly "we must face" the challenge ...
... I read ... portrayal to ... Rosen ... Being not an enthusiast but admirer of Rosen I will offer this: The problem of reason and revelation is not central...
... From: harveycmd To: leo-strauss@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 2:44 PM Subject: [leo-strauss] Re: A Review of Rosen's New Book ... I read ...
... seems to me that Rosen desires, just as you suggest, to stake out his own position. I certainly think this is understandable and even tempting. It is...
Rosen would say that Strauss's attempt to delineate, or know, the fundamental alternatives is necessarily philosophical, however much Strauss may deny that he ...
... So originality is rather drunken, while what is repeated (over and over again) is sober? Seems like that latter is much more drunken than the former,...
I remember someone asking Rosen that very question, and Rosen gave that response, that the attempt to know the alternatives is by necessity philosophical....
Billy Joe Robidoux wrote: Rosen would say that Strauss's attempt to delineate, or know, the fundamental alternatives is necessarily philosophical, however much...
... Rosen does not pretend to keep secrets but he does keep secrets. That is a major difference between Rosen and Strauss (and Strauss's followers). Strauss...
Since Rosen does not state them and then deny them (as Strauss does), his secrets don't exactly bear telling outside of the context in which they are alluded...
Since Rosen does not state them and then deny them (as Strauss does), his secrets don't exactly bear telling outside of the context in which they are alluded...
Well that is the first comparison of Rosen and Drury I have ever heard. I once heard someone ask Rosen about Drury's book and he laughed and said she obviously...
Harveycmd wrote: "I once heard someone ask Rosen about Drury's book and he laughed and said she obviously did not understand Strauss." That's precisely my...
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David North
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Mar 10, 2003 12:06 am
Dan Foley said - ... And in a subsequent post said - I've shared several radically unconventionaly views of Strauss and provided some evidence for those views...
... I've made a couple of suggestions as to why he did this. You correctly imply that there is more to it than I have suggested. It's a huge issue--and it is...
Mr. Foley, ... Of the three "beliefs" you mention here, there is little evidence that Strauss "supported" two of them. There's *no* sympathy in Strauss for...
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David North
dnorth@...
Mar 10, 2003 11:13 pm
Mr Foley I asked and you responded - ... You promise much. You then drew my attention to the problem on the surface and at the heart of things - ... With...
