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	Strauss in the Frontier by Myles Kantor
		In response to my piece on Westerns, I had more than one reader write that the portrayal of railroads and banks in Westerns as bad guys is really a commentary on corporatism and not on capitalism.
		Since government was so much involved with banks and railroads in real life, they say, the anti-business sentiment is really anti-governmentI’m sympathetic to this point of view since it’s the one I started with when I began working on this project.
		It’s unpleasant to acknowledge that a dearly regarded work of art has lousy themes; the mind wants the text to accommodate its outlook.
	www.lewrockwell.com /kantor/kantor84.html (591 words)

	Canada Research Chair for Social Justice: Shadia B. Drury
		In his writings, he contrasted the wisdom of ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle with the foolhardiness of' modern philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke.
		He therefore argued that philosophy must be kept hidden or secret, not simply to permit philosophers to avoid persecution, but for the sake of the people and for the wellbeing of the city.
		In Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), a paradigmatic work, Strauss argued that all the great philosophers of the past understood the dangers involved in their own philosophical activity.
	www.uregina.ca /arts/CRC/encyc_leostrauss.html (1085 words)

	Sleep of reason \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		In his study "Persecution and the Art of Writing", Leo Strauss catalogued the ways writers used details to express themselves in regimes where free speech was prohibited.
		The same processes may function in visual art, as we see in the work of the Russian artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, who are currently showing at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
		Art became less an access to meaning than a barrier to it, one which none the less held out the promise of interpretation.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1644967,00.html (1064 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is with the latter attempt that we are concerned; for the writings of Philo, its chief and earliest advocate, coincided with the birth of Christianity.
		The general purpose of his principal writings was to show that the admirable wisdom of the Greeks was contained in substance in the Jewish Scriptures, and his method was to read allegory into the simple narratives of the Pentateuch.
		Philo's writings were, no doubt, widely known amongst the Jews, both at home and abroad, at the time when the Apostles began to preach, but it is extremely unlikely that the latter, who were not educated men, were acquainted with them.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03712a.htm (8663 words)

	What was Leo Strauss up to? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Persecution and the Art of Writing is Strauss’s only book explicitly devoted to his rediscovery of the forgotten art of writing, of writing “between the lines,” or, more precisely, exotericism.
		Strauss’s basic argument in regard to persecution may be summarized as follows: Most societies of the past and many of the present are nonliberal.
		Precisely because persecution is “the most obvious and the crudest reason” for the practice of exoteric writing, it could serve as the most effective point of departure for the reader’s philosophic education.
	www.thepublicinterest.com /archives/2003fall/article1.html (4889 words)

	Persecution and the Art of Neoconservative Writing
		An astute reader, knowing that the philosopher was intelligent, and skilled in writing, and chose his words carefully, would be led to meditate on these difficulties, and so grasp what was really being said.
		Re-examining Perle and Frum's op-ed in this light, as a piece of openly concealed writing, we are led inescapably to the conclusion that these two prominent members of the neo-conservative tendency are in fact denouncing Bush for his ineffective, indeed counter-productive, policies.
		Just as philosophers who depends for their livelihoods on church and king would not write openly about the mortality of the soul or the constitution of the ideal republic, these two, being so closely associated with the present administration, do not discuss its flaws in plain terms.
	www.cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/weblog/000165.html (1305 words)

	Drug History
		One of the oldest records of such medicinal recommendations is found in the writings of the Chinese scholar-emperor Shen Nung, who lived in 2735 BC He compiled a book about herbs, a forerunner of the medieval pharmacopoeias that listed all the then-known medications.
		Even on the battlefield he was fond of surprising men in the act of smoking, when he would punish them by beheading, hanging, quartering or crushing their hands and feed.
		Nevertheless, in spite of all the horrors and persecution.
	www.drug-rehabs.org /drughistory.php (7605 words)

	Article-Persecution and the Art of Writing
		The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics.
		Strauss's thesis: "Persecution cannot prevent even public expression of the heterodox truth, for a man of independent thought can utter his views in public and remain unharmed, provided he moves with circumspection.
		The second chapter, which covers the topic "Persecution and the art of writing," is only from page 22 to page37 of this book.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_persecution_and_the_-0226777111.htm (1467 words)

	Art Of Writing Essays\| Art Of Writing Dissertations
		Persecution and the Art of Writing is a book containing five previously published essays, all dealing with the relationship between politics and philosophy, written by Leo Strauss.
		The thesis of the book is that many ancient and early modern political philosophers, in order to avoid persecution, hid their most heterodox ideas within their texts.
		All material supplied about art of writing must be used for research purposes only and all art essays remain our copyright.
	www.art.degree-essays.com /art-of-writing-essays.html (454 words)

	Commentary Online View Summary - Persecution and the Art of Writing, by Leo Strauss
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	Definition of Persecution and the Art of Writing
		Persecution and the Art of Writing is a book containing five previously published essays, all dealing with the relation between politics and philosophy, written by Leo Strauss.
		The thesis of the book is that many ancient and early modern political philosophers, in order to escape persecution, hid their most heterodox ideas within their texts.
		In his essay on Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed he explains how Maimonides' writings are related to hidden meanings in torah, through kabbalist treatements of the text.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Persecution_and_the_Art_of_Writing (341 words)

	Times & Seasons » Persecution and the Art of Mormon Writing
		Among the ideas for which Strauss is famous (or infamous depending on your point of view) is the claim that most of the great philosophers of the past have a secret, esoteric meaning that they have hidden in the text of their works.
		In Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss argued that most philosophers wrote under conditions where a full explanation of their true opinions would be either personally dangerous or socially destructive.
		Aside from any consciously esoteric or subversive undertakings, I suspect the situation is complicated further by the fact that the nature and motivations—not to mention entirely unforeseen readings—of their works are often not apparent to the authors themselves in the moment of creation.
	www.timesandseasons.org /?p=3262 (2381 words)

	Political Theory: Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In his essay “Persecution and the Art of Writing,” Strauss advances the notion of sociology of philosophy, in itself a branch of the sociology of knowledge, as the best way to understand the relationship between a philosopher and his social context[9].
		[22] Husserl’s writings deal on, at least in two occasions, with a crucial problem to the tradition of political philosophy: “that of the relation of the philosopher to the context of practical and political lfe that his activity presupposes, or of the sources of philosophy and science in the prephilosophic and prescientific world”.
		Although he did no live to write that essay his other writings, as well as a transcript of a class he gave on the dialogue indicate what he would have probably touched on.
	www.politicaltheory.info /essays/jaramillo.htm (7372 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.10.03
		The former is the "true" teachings of philosophers which can only be deciphered by reading "in between" the lines of their works; the latter is the political lip-service paid to the demos so as to avoid public persecution of the kind that Socrates and other philosophers had.
		The "political" aspect of political philosophy therefore is the use of silence, irony, and other rhetorical devices to mislead the demos regarding the true, esoteric teachings of the philosopher.
		Not only does Rhodes present the secondary literature on Plato's writings thoroughly and fairly, but his analysis of Plato's letter and dialogues is especially impressive, particularly the presentation of Homer's Odyssey as the unifying paradigm for the Phaedrus, thus solving a problem that has bedeviled scholars for centuries.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-10-03.html (1607 words)

	What was Leo Strauss up to?
		But it would be misleading to attempt to understand Strauss by ascribing to him an influence, whether beneficial or nefarious, on current policy debates, and then inferring from the alleged influence what his aims really were.
		Persecution and the Art of Writing(1952) and Natural Right and History(1953) followed soon thereafter.
		Since, for example, "to deny that religion is essential to society is difficult for anyone who puts any trust in the accumulated experience of the human race," philosophers, who reject belief as arbitrary or unevident, refrain from expressing directly or unambiguously the reasoning that underlies their doubt.
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	BrothersJudd Blog: THE PRINCELY PROTOCOLS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In his book Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss outlines why secrecy is necessary.
		Now, the ancients were determined to keep this tyrannical teaching secret because the people are not likely to tolerate the fact that they are intended for subordination; indeed, they may very well turn their resentment against the superior few.
		Lies are thus necessary to protect the superior few from the persecution of the vulgar many.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/008649.html (2461 words)

	Art Class at Tantai.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Thorstein Veblen, he of The Theory of the Leisure Class, did this sort of thing better a century ago, and he, too, was...
		But as a senior, he welcomed the chance the art show gave him to become...
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	The City and Man
		Still, given the obscurity and room for interpretation in his writing, I can't say that Strauss is necessarily "Straussian." That's up to the whims of those who have studied him and later have positions of power.
		His writings have therefore acquired new interest because of the insight they may provide into the thinking of those who have attempted to create a new American imperium.
		Strauss is renowned for his verbosity, for a bizarre numerological fixation on the ancient texts he studied, and for a belief in "esotericism" -- i.e., that the classic authors hid their real teachings in cryptic subtexts discernible only by the most probing of readers.
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	The Little Professor
		Charles doesn't treat William Holman Hunt's The Shadow of Death as an artistic creation; for her, it "all goes to show how the death of the Lord Jesus and his Resurrection is foretold in the Bible from ancient times" (142).
		Charles' faith is equally blind: "he saw her, as if from the air, climbing the steps and going into the stupendous church, which he felt he owned, all ironically and art-historically, more than her, a mere credulous Christian" (142).
		Skimming a novel, though, is its own art form, and one that depends on both the type of novel ("high" literary, pulp, didactic...) and the reader's particular interests (keywords, image patterns, genre conventions...).
	littleprofessor.typepad.com (2479 words)

	Persecution and the Art of Writing Review and price
		Strauss assumes that the suppression of ideas by those in power and the persecution of dissenters and intellectuals is okay.
		Strauss's thesis: "Persecution cannot prevent even public expression of the heterodox truth, for a man of independent thought can utter his views in public and remain unharmed, provided he moves with circumspection.
		One can also argue from Strauss that religious minorities may also be persecuted, since they ought to find a way to "behave" between the lines.
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	Strauss, Leo
		Strauss is also known for his vigorous attacks on relativism and nihilism, which appear in many of his writings.
		The fundamental question, therefore, is whether men can acquire that knowledge of the good without which they cannot guide their lives individually or collectively by the unaided efforts of their natural powers, or whether they are dependent for that knowledge on Divine Revelation.
		Strauss's essay Persecution and the Art of Writing, first published in 1952, develops this theme.
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	Italian holidays in Tuscany, art and holiday courses.
		The murder of two farmers brings Ambrose back into contact with local people, and he is forced to act to save a gypsy family from persecution and then to unravel the mystery of the murders.
		During the course of this he is powerfully attracted by Elisabeth Anstruther, a governess with a mysterious background that has somehow involved her in the crimes.
		"Writing Great Copy" aims to show the reader how to transform sales material and provides techniques that should work for any subject matter.
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	The Power of Ambiguity - Page 34
		It is not sufficient to simply "sprinkle" one's writing with ambiguities as one might sprinkle an ice-cream cone with chocolate.
		Leo Strauss wrote "Persecution and the Art of Writing" to explore the notion that a writer, for political or moral reasons, might write a work which has an outer, explicit meaning for the commonfolk, but a hidden inner esoteric meaning meant only for those equipped to discern it.
		If one were to write an explicit treatise on philosophical or spiritual ideas which conflict with Islam, then one might face persecution.
	www.toosmallforsupernova.org /page034.htm (1074 words)

	Literature Network Forums - The First Postmodernist Novel
		But the topic of censorship and persecution may easily be construed or misconstrued as a political topic, rather than an artistic one, which would conflict with forum rules.
		Thus, a parallel can be drawn between Sekure’s eavesdropping on her lover’s “manly” conversation with her father from the next room through a hole in the wall, on the one hand, and the evocation of the Islamic veil in Comme une Blessure de Sabre, on the other hand.
		But the fascinating thing about the Postmodernist writing style of, say, Pynchon, is that it is disobedient and rebellious and breaks free from the censorship of tried and true genres.
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4084 (4078 words)

	Education \| 2003 May Family National Art & Writing Contest
		Past May Family National Art & Writing Contests
		Sixty years ago the Nazis unleashed the machinery of mass murder across Europe in what has come to be called the Holocaust.
		Despite the indifference of many and the outright collaboration of others in the murder of Jews, thousands of individuals, both Jewish and non—Jewish, took a stand against the persecution and killing of innocent people.
	www.ushmm.org /education/forstudents/awcontest/2003/?theme=students (297 words)

	PREVARICATION AND THE ART OF RULING
		As he argued in his classic but controversial Persecution and the Art of Writing, the great ancient philosophers used a special mode of writing, an esoteric writing that was intelligible only to the educated few who were trained in the art of reading between the lines.
		The art of war is all that is expected of a ruler; and it is so useful that besides enabling hereditary princes to maintain their rule it frequently enables ordinary citizens to become rulers.”Religion, deception, and politics all come together in the harsh reality of war.
		The art of war is all that is expected of a ruler; and it is so useful that besides enabling hereditary princes to maintain their rule it frequently enables ordinary citizens to become rulers.”[132] Both deception and religion are critical in times of war.
	www.esoteric.msu.edu /VolumeVII/Secrecy.htm (8337 words)

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