Status Updates From Nietzsche and the Politics ...

I wonder if Strauss's philosopher is not essentially the same thing as Nietzsche's superman=artist?

"Kaufmann argues that " 'Power' means something specific for Nietzsche: self-overcoming."

Now, where have I heard that one before? Jihad means, according to one version, an internal struggle for self-perfection....

Indeed, the very liberation from ultimate authority that constitutes a "new dawn" for the tare exception merely threatens to "wipe away the entire horizon" for the uncreative majority"

Well, here we have it, don't we? According to Fukuyama's exposition in Liberalism and Its Discontents, it is exactly this (wilful?) misreading of Nietzsche that has pervaded the modern version of liberalism. Aka "wokeness" to some

"We must keep in mind, however, that Nietzsche also says, "What serves the higher type of man as nourishment or detection must almost be poison for a very different and inferior type." Nietzsche's ideal of self-creation appears to be devoid of liberal or democratic implications, because he suggests that this ideal is not for the many. Indeed, the very liberation from ultimate authority that constitutes a "new dawn" >

Once more, one could have just said - people are Bayesian.

Very good analysis in Chapter 2 so far. Of course, today this is more or commonplace e among educated people (at least those with a certain bent) and could be easily encapsulated by Derman's maxim: "All models are wrong but some are more useful than others."