{"id":13738,"date":"2014-11-04T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2014-11-04T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:46:12","slug":"the-lost-history-of-esoteric-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/the-lost-history-of-esoteric-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost History of Esoteric Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A weighty new book from the University Of Chicago Press looks interesting, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/022617509X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=022617509X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dlog-20&amp;linkId=RLZUO2XPVNXBA7O7\">Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=dlog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=022617509X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" \/>.<\/em>  According to a review, this is is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>compelling, surprising, and persuasive defense of Strauss&#8221;[&#8216;s claim that&#8230;] &#8220;virtually all philosophers up until the early 19th century wrote their books &#8216;esoterically&#8217; &mdash; that is, using a rhetoric of concealment, with a surface teaching meant for general readers and a hidden teaching for those who were intelligent, clever, and tenacious enough to uncover it.&#8221; [The author] &#8220;supplies a mountain of evidence in support of Strauss&#8217; claims &mdash; quotes from just about every major philosopher (and many other writers) from ancient Greece to 19th-century Germany testifying to the reality of esotericism.&#8221; &mdash; Damon Linker, <em>The Week<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>a landmark work in both intellectual history and political theory&#8221; &mdash; <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weighty new book from the University Of Chicago Press looks interesting, Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/the-lost-history-of-esoteric-writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}