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Entry: Pagans are devout; Straussians not so much Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/pagans_are_devout_straussians_not_so_much#23242 Post contents: I agree with Carl O. that the Hillel House address in crucial to an understanding of Strauss. In this fascinating lecture “Why We Remain Jews” Strauss eschews cultural and religious forms of Jewish identity and articulates or rather adumbrates one based on arms and Zionism. The basic idea is that a new identity can be created through the appropriation of land through violence. Like Carl Schmitt’s Nomos concept in taking and holding land. It’s a rather murky meandering lecture with inchoate utopian aspirations and the Q&A;session afterward is amusing since his tactful and well-intentioned interlocutors have no idea of what he has just explained to them. Sent at: 2008 11 23