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To: TigerPaw who wrote (118882)	11/7/2003 9:40:06 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

The abuse of Strauss's concept of esoteric writing permits people like you to attribute just about any nonsense to Strauss, because, after all, his true doctrine is imagined to be hidden. The truth is, of course, that there is little agreement, even in Straussian circles, about how much "reservation" there might have been in Strauss's writings. I have known several Straussians (I mean people who studied with Strauss), and my wife had an extra- curricular seminar with him when he was scholar in residence at St. John's, and it appears to me that he applied the idea of esoteric writing primarily to situations of actual persecution, and that the supposed esoteric readings that he floated of classic authors were of a piece with his aboveboard commentary........