An essential text to understand the current moment, and how we arrived here, is Leo Strauss's "Three Waves of Modernity." Published in 1975, it was a distillation of his thinking about the political crisis of the modern world, namely ideologies of liberalism, Marxism and fascism.
— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) June 14, 2020
Straussian genealogy is a poor substitute for actual historiography, even if some Roman Catholic intellectuals have appropriated it. The problem is sin leading to the development and rise of the state; there's no need to replace historiography with the fallacy of reification.
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