Post-Modernity: Plato or Nietzsche?

Abstract

Strauss does not explicitly propose a ‘solution’ to the crisis of modernity. Nevertheless, his diagnosis of the ills of modernity in terms of the revolt against nature points to how the effects of the crisis can be undermined. Whatever ‘solution’ is implicit in Strauss’s writings, it must be construed in terms of the reinstatement of nature as a standard. Only the latter can begin to reverse the modern subversion of nature.