Strauss's After-Dinner Speech
May 24, 1941, New School for Social Research [a rough transcripts]
“Epideictic is a display of power which serves no practical purpose, for example, after-dinner speeches” (Strauss’s Symposium transcript, p. 11)
My First After-Dinner Speech
New School, May 24, 1941
Since I am not a member of the Graduate Faculty, I might very well say something in praise of it. Yet since I am somehow connected with it, I feel that the rul…