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“Rosen is comically represented in Strauss’s discussion of Hippodamus in The City And Man.”

Any idea about the source for these accounts? It looks like the writer was a student of Strauss at some point.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/leo-strauss/message/48166

“Benardete and his brother are jokingly portrayed as Euthydemus
and his brother in Strauss’s analysis of the Euthydemus in Studies in Platonic
Political Philosophy.”

what is that? first of all, it’s pretty clear who is writing what. i have a very characteristic way of writing. but then duane is somehow insinuating that his position of power — as a moderator of the blog — somehow gives him the authority to do something or other — I’m not sure what.

this is another example of duane’s pettiness. look. nobody wants to deal with petty persons. not in academia. not in anarchism. not in anarchist academia. nowhere.

perhaps you have something significant to contribute to anarchist and academic thought, duane; i don’t know. but if you want to be taken seriously in any dialogue, you have to work on your lousy attitude or people will continue to treat you as simply an annoyance.

I have no particular axe to grind with Duane Rousselle. In fact, I barely know who he is.

I did take a cheap shot against you, characterizing you as a petty academic who could not support a family, and I apologized for that. Indeed, I think you are incredibly lucky to have a wife who supports you emotionally and financially.

I (MV) am no longer in philosophy — I am now a bricoleur (engineer), and I owe Critchley nothing for that. I published books and articles on anarchism way before I ever studied with Critchley. I owe him nothing for those either. You are wrong on your facts.

The reason why I am objecting to Duane’s lies so stridently is because I know perfectly well what happened. I participated in the conference and I am published in the book. I was invited to participate by Chiara, never by Simon. I saw the work that Jacob and Chiara and Simon put into the text and into the conference. The only time Duane’s name was mentioned was to say that he was going to post the videos on the web and that he was helping connect them to a publisher, Pluto Press.

So yeah, it pisses me off that Duane is defaming a work that I am published in, and that he is discrediting the work of my friends and colleagues by his fallacious claims.

I know perfectly well who organized the conference. I know perfectly well who edited my essay. It was E.S., the graduate student who was thanked in the book. Duane never touched my essay. If he had, I would have gotten a letter saying, “do you approve of these edits”. But I never did.

Look, Duane, you are trying to take credit for something that has very little to do with you.

You scored big on the conference — ADCS published the conference procedings in your online magazine. That’s a coup. That’s huge.

But you weren’t satisfied with that significant gain and you tried to keep on pushing your luck. You annoyed the hell out of everyone so much that Simon finally sent you a note: “either you accept the new amendments or else I take everything and leave”.

If you didn’t have such a shitty attitude and you didn’t keep on pressuring people to include you in the project, you probably would have gotten some mention. But instead, you have been and are still acting like a jerk, and so nobody wants to deal with you.

Duane gives away the reason why he was excluded from the volume in his own statements:

The topic sentence of his second paragraph reads:
“Their contributions reflected the stated objective of the journal that I edit, namely Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies.”
Here is a perfect example of Duane trying to inscribe the efforts of others into his own academic narrative, to take credit for the work of others.

Later, Duane writes:
“I wrote back and asked him if he understood how many months of intense work I put into the project and he responded by letting me know that he would, of course, detail my work in the acknowledgements section. While I was still a little bitter, I nonetheless thought that this was better than nothing. At least I would receive a little bit of credit for my work.”

Duane was “still a little bitter”. Exactly. Duane displays over and over what a petty person he is. Seriously, academia is rife with petty and insecure people, mad hungry skinny dogs fighting with each other for the few remaining scraps of meat. Duane exemplifies this pettiness in the worst way possible. The reason why Duane got totally ignored by the editors of this volume is because he did act and he still continues to act like a petty person, and nobody wants to put up with that.

http://dingpolitik.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/a-thinly-veiled-threat/