Re: <nettime> The Ultimate Straussian Links

[Richard Barbrook <richard@hrc.wmin.ac.uk>]

Hiya,

>Don't forget the link to Koj�ve !

This is the bit that I find puzzling about the Straussians. I once saw a
member of the audience humiliate Fukuyama at a meeting in London by using
Koj�ve's remix of Hegel against him, i.e. the 'end of history' is the
overthrow of the warrior masters by the working slaves. Since Fukuyama and
other neo-cons argue instead that Hegel's prophecy has been realised by the
American military-industrial complex, why are they so fascinated by the
writings of a Marxist-Hegelian which apparently undermine the philosophical
underpinnings of their imperialist fantasy? Koj�ve's 'Lectures on the
Phenomenology' was one of the key texts for the post-1945 generation of
left-wing intellectuals in Europe and yet the English translation was
edited and published in the USA by Straussians! Most bizarre...

Later,

Richard

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